Re: nve0 nvidia onboard ethernet dies daily on 6.0 beta1

From: Kövesdán Gábor <gabor.kovesdan_at_t-hosting.hu>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:06:06 +0200
alan bryan wrote:

>--- Kövesdán Gábor <gabor.kovesdan_at_t-hosting.hu>
>wrote:
>  
>
>>The nve driver has a lot of problems. You
>>experienced just device 
>>timeouts, but other people - including me -
>>experiences system crashes. 
>>As for me, I've had two kind of kernel panics, and
>>device timeouts too.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Gabor Kovesdan
>>    
>>
>
>Do you (or does anyone else here) have any
>recommendations then on a good PCI express (no plain
>PCI slots) ethernet card that doesn't use the nve
>driver?  Maybe an Intel card?  Gigabit speeds
>preferably.  I could then use that until the nve
>driver gets fixed (Is somebody even working on fixing
>it?).
>
>Thanks,
>Alan
>
>  
>
No, unfortunately I don't know about a good alternative. I don't think 
anybody is
working on it now. Maxime Henrion and Quinton Dolan committed changes to 
that driver,
but unfortunately it didn't make things better.

Cheers,

Gábor Kövesdán
Received on Thu Aug 18 2005 - 19:06:18 UTC

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