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