Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:38:29 -0400 | From | Todd Showalter <> | Subject | Problems with sky2 driver. |
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I've been having trouble with the sky2 driver. It appears to work most of the time, but it will quite often wedge during transfers. The 2.6.17.* kernels actually seem worse than 2.6.16.19, but none of them work perfectly.
What typically happens is that after working perfectly for a while, existing net connections hang, and subsequent net connections don't seem to start at all. firefox gets stuck with a bunch of half-loaded pages, for instance, and I've watched an scp of a large file to a colleague's machine stall and remain stalled.
Once the machine is behaving this way, a reboot is the only way I have found of recovering it.
We have two identical machines here that are both behaving this way, so I'm assuming it's not a hardware problem per se. The machines are Intel Pentium D 940 (3GHz) processors. They have ASUS P5LD2 motherboards, with builtin Marvell PCIe 88E8053 gigabit ethernet controllers.
I'm not running any binary modules; it's an untainted kernel. I'm running a Gentoo system, but I'm using the vanilla-sources kernel (ie: a pure kernel.org release, not the Gentoo-specific patched version).
What can I do to help solve this?
Todd.
-- Todd Showalter, Silverbirch Studios.
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