Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:29:13 +0200 | From | Udo van den Heuvel <> | Subject | VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...) |
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Hello,
It appears that the VIA Rhine chipset has some sort of bug which shows up in both the standard Linux VIA-Rhine driver and the Rhinefet driver that VIA itself provides.
The difference is that the connection is dropped in case of the standard Linux driver for VIA Rhine but that the connection remains OK with the Rhinefet driver provided by VIA (http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/Source/rhinefet.tgz and other places on viaarena.com...). So VIA Rhinefet driver consumes more CPU but is also more stable.
I wrote about this issue before: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/82 & http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/15/47 etc. I opened a bugzilla case: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5030
Who could find out why the standard Linux driver chokes and the Rhinefet driver doesn't? Who could fix this bug?
Kind regards, Udo
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