On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Sid Boyce wrote:
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.
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