Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:05:36 -0800 (PST) | From | Konstantin Kudin <> | Subject | 2.4.24 - unload/load network module -> unstable network |
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I do not know if this is significant, but I'll report this just in case.
I was troubleshooting a network problem that eventually turned out to be unrelated to the linux box.
While doing that I unloaded the standard kernel module for the Broadcom chip {tg3} and loaded {bcm5700} from the vendor instead. At first things seemed fine, but after a few hours the box lost the network and did not respond to ping. The network came up after a network restart (no reboot). I thought that there was a problem with bcm5700, so I unloaded it, and loaded tg3 back. Again, after a few hours the network went down. So I had to reboot to make network stable again.
When the tg3 module is loaded during the boot sequence, things are stable for indefinite amount of time.
Konstantin
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