From: Ronciak, J. <joh...@in...> - 2008-03-28 22:22:09
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Did you try without any options turned on? Auke asked: > options e1000 debug=16 XsumRX=0 Speed=1000 Duplex=2 > InterruptThrottleRate=0 FlowControl=3 RxDescriptors=4096 > TxDescriptors=4096 RxIntDelay=0 TxIntDelay=0 those are all a bit unneeded and I would suggest removing all of these options. Note that you are explicitly forcing speed/duplex here which is not recommended, and may be wrong depending on the link partner configuration. So this needs to be tried first. Cheers, John ----------------------------------------------------------- "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.", Benjamin Franklin 1755 -----Original Message----- From: e10...@li... [mailto:e10...@li...] On Behalf Of snowcrash+e1000 Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 3:11 PM To: Kok, Auke-jan H Cc: e10...@li... Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] "e1000_clean_tx_irq: Detected Tx Unit Hang"errors only on pppoe connect hi auke, > Now we're down to ppp. I still notice that the tx hang is instantly - not even a > single packet makes it out of the card apparently, which is *astounding* > > Can you perhaps attach a tcpdump to the interface before pppd is started? > > what output do you see immediately before and after the hang from `ifconfig -a` ? i'm still fussing with tcpdump ... will get that figured out in abit :-/ > Try (1) with no options or (2) with only TSO disabled: `ethtool -K eth0 tso off` i tried both case (1) & (2), above, with no change -- still the same errors. > > Mar 28 12:04:58 server kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC > > Link is Down > > not sure why link goes down here... ppp does that? the line was incorrectly split in the 'quote'. it's: Mar 28 15:03:29 fw kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Down i.e., it's the "watchdog" task. > pending the questions above I might have you run a special driver to dump the ring > contents, but lets see what comes up from this first. so, atm, i'm getting the error consistently in all scenarios tried so far. time for the 'special driver'? > Thanks for taking the time to dig into this. thanks for your help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketp lace _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E10...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel |