Re: re(4) problem

From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:53:13 +0900
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:39:36AM +0100, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
 > Hello Pyun,
 > 
 > Monday, March 10, 2008, 2:55:26 AM, you wrote:
 > 
 > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 05:07:10PM +0100, Daniel Gerzo wrote:
 >  >> Hello,
 >  >> 
 >  >> Saturday, March 8, 2008, 12:11:03 AM, has been written:
 >  >> 
 >  >> > Hello Pyun,
 >  >> 
 >  >> > Friday, March 7, 2008, 5:38:15 AM, you wrote:
 >  >> 
 >  >> >> I guess your issue is not related with bus_dma fixes but improper
 >  >> >> handling of link state. Try attached patch and let me know how it
 >  >> >> goes.
 >  >> 
 >  >> > The attached patch didn't help, the box is again in the same status.
 >  >> > Can I provide you with some more detailed debugging info, or do you
 >  >> > have some other ideas what could be fixed?
 >  >> 
 >  >> > I could probably manage a remote access to that box, but no remote
 >  >> > console is available, and I don't know exactly how to trigger this
 >  >> > scenario, but I think it depends on the amount of traffic being sent
 >  >> > over the device.
 >  >> 
 >  >> If I won't hear from anybody in next 24 hours, I will have to replace
 >  >> the network device in this box, in order to get it running properly.
 >  >> 
 >  >> However, I don't consider this step as a right solution and I would
 >  >> rather better like to have it fixed in the driver.
 >  >> 
 > 
 > > Yes, I'd like to.
 > > By any chance, does the system have more than 4GB memory?
 > 
 > Well it does have exactly 4GB. Attached, I am sending you the output
 > of dmesg, pciconf and dmidecode utilities.
 > 
 > The machine has been rebooted yesterday, but I haven't replaced (well
 > re(4) is an onboard interface so better term would be disabled) the
 > given NIC, but at the moment, it works fine. I suppose it will stop
 > working in next 24 hours...
 > 

Since you're using MSI, would you try attached patch?
Sorry, I don't have PCIe based hardware and RealTek's datasheet for
PCIe variants is too poor to get useful information.

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon

Received on Mon Mar 10 2008 - 09:53:24 UTC

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