tg3 networking issue

Patrick fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Mon Jul 17 15:35:44 UTC 2006


Hi all,

I recently updated to kernel 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 on my FC5 laptop. Not
sure if it's related but now networking stops working intermittently.
The driver used is tg3 for a Broadcom  BCM5789 nic. In /var/log/messages
I see:

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting
tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=2c00 enable_bit=2
tg3: eth0: Link is down.
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.

Doing a $sudo /sbin/service network restart immediately solves the
problem. I only see this happen with the download of the FC5 Unity DVD
torrent. Not with small fish like surfing or getting my mail from an
imap server on the LAN. Has anyone seen something similar? Any
suggestions how I can pinpoint/fix this?

[patrick at laptop ~]$ cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:     848431  local-APIC-edge  timer
  1:       5178    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  8:          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
12:       2071    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
14:      33879    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
15:      30072    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
169:      85425   IO-APIC-level  acpi, ndiswrapper
177:          1   IO-APIC-level  yenta
209:          2   IO-APIC-level  ATI IXP, ATI IXP Modem
225:      12158   IO-APIC-level  ohci_hcd:usb1, ohci_hcd:usb2,
ehci_hcd:usb3
233:    1066504   IO-APIC-level  radeon at pci:0000:01:00.0, eth0
NMI:        442
LOC:     848392
ERR:         10
MIS:          0

[patrick at laptop ~]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
hci_usb                53077  3
radeon                151777  1
drm                   131945  2 radeon
fuse                   84305  0
hidp                   85057  3
rfcomm                112481  0
l2cap                  94017  14 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth             125637  8 hci_usb,hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
ndiswrapper           278440  0
vfat                   48321  1
fat                    94833  1 vfat
dm_mirror              59457  0
dm_mod                107537  1 dm_mirror
video                  54345  0
button                 41569  0
battery                44873  0
acpi_memhotplug        39361  0
ac                     39241  0
lp                     49425  0
parport_pc             66153  0
parport                80461  2 lp,parport_pc
snd_atiixp_modem       53453  0
snd_atiixp             58461  1
tg3                   146245  0
snd_ac97_codec        154393  2 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp
snd_ac97_bus           36289  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy          37701  0
snd_seq_oss            74561  0
snd_seq_midi_event     42817  1 snd_seq_oss
ehci_hcd               71501  0
snd_seq               104929  5
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
ohci_hcd               58205  0
snd_seq_device         44113  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            83025  0
snd_mixer_oss          53569  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               142409  4
snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              63689  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                   108777  12
snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              45793  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         45009  3 snd_atiixp_modem,snd_atiixp,snd_pcm
ext3                  181457  2
jbd                   100585  1 ext3

Thanks,
Patrick




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