tg3 networking issue

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 00:28 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 22:25 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 13:16 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Ok, so tg3 is now the official Broadcom driver (grumble!).  Still, try
> > > turning off the autonegotiation bit and see if it helps.  Using ethtool:
> > > 
> > >     # ethtool -s ethX autoneg off speed 100 duplex full
> > > 
> > > Obviously, use your ethernet port for "ethX" and set the "speed"
> > > parameter to whatever you need (10, 100, or 1000).
> > > 
> > > One of the complaints I have with the tg3 driver is that you have to use
> > > ethtool to do this rather than stuffing parms into the modprobe.conf
> > > file.
> > 
> > Thanks, will give that a try.
> 
> The ethtool trick did not work. I went back to kernel 2080 and enabled
> the ati-fglrx module again. All is well now. Maybe this working setup is
> useful to others although it does not explain why this was happening.

Hmmm.  An interrupt conflict, possibly?  A lot of video cards use IRQ9,
and so do some network cards.  Can cause issues...

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