https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723042 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723042#c0 Summary: [PATCH] e1000e: workaround for packet drop on 82579LM at 100Mbps Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Beta 1 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: tez@terryburton.co.uk QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.202 Safari/535.1 Many (but not all) devices including an Intel 82579LM NIC have a hardware fault that results in packet loss at 100Mbs that is worked around by the following recent patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/109926/ More detail provided here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/linux/+bug/870127/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713315 It would be useful for this patch to be cherry picked for the distribution kernel in current supported releases of SLED and SLES as this fault exists on a large number of recent devices. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.