Only just saw the post, my laptop has the BCM5788 chip and the network would stall even when no transfer was going, ping the box and it would be there, later another ping and it would be gone. Then I was using the bcm5700 driver, changed to the tg3 driver and it's been OK over the last two months with different 2.6.x kernels. Regards Sid. Kevin Lewandowski wrote:
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 02:21:05PM -0700, Kevin Lewandowski wrote:
Hi, All. I think I've solved this. It looks like the problem was the tg3 driver. I changed the configuration to use the bcm5700 driver (which is included with suse 9.1) and my big copy tests passed without freezing.
What does lspci say about your network chip ?
0000:02:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 1644 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 24 Memory at fc9c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=fc9a0000] Memory at fc9b0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at 00010000 [disabled] Capabilities: [40] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
0000:02:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 1644 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 25 Memory at fc9f0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=fc9d0000] Memory at fc9e0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at 00010000 [disabled] Capabilities: [40] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
ethtool says:
# ethtool -i eth0 driver: bcm5700 version: 7.2.24 firmware-version: bus-info: 0000:02:09.0
# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: g Wake-on: d Link detected: yes
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