Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:33:32 +0200 | From | Marc Haber <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.26/tg3 ping roundtrip times > 2000 ms on local network |
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 09:21:28AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:11:50AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 10:47 -0700, Marc Haber wrote: > > > > Now I need to understand why the other, nearly[1] > > identical box didn't > > > > need the patch to function properly. > > > > > > It depends on whether you have ASF enabled or not and what > > version of > > > ASF you have. ASF is management firmware running inside > > the NIC. When > > > the tg3 driver loads, it will show ASF[1] in dmesg if ASF > > is enabled. > > > > Both machines have that string in their dmesg. > > > > It may be different versions of ASF. Try ethtool -i eth0. It > may tell us the firmware version.
$ sudo ethtool -i eth0 driver: tg3 version: 3.92.1 firmware-version: 5704-v3.26 bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
The other box is the same, only that bus-info ends in .1, and the .0 device is unused.
Greetings Marc
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