netdev - Re: kernel BUG in eth_alloc_tx_desc_index at drivers/net/mv643xx

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Date:	Tue, 9 Jan 2007 11:56:59 +0100
From:	"Thibaut VARENE" <T-Bone@...isc-linux.org>
To:	"Jarek Poplawski" <jarkao2@...pl>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG in eth_alloc_tx_desc_index at drivers/net/mv643xx_eth.c:1069!

On 1/9/07, Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:27:59AM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> ...
> > I suspected both and changed both the disk and the ram for quality
> > parts, that I tested afterwards. Both passed thorough tests.
>
> You wrote about half an hour, so overheating was also
> considered, I presume.

Yes, but since it works fine with the other NIC... :)

> > Finally, using the other NIC on the box (a VIA Rhine II, 100Mbps),
> > works absolutely fine.
>
> So it looks like the card/driver (or maybe this specimen?).

I'm suspecting the driver, but I'm not a specialist :)
It's true that this particular card specimen could be damaged even
though that seems a bit unlikely.

HTH

T-Bone

-- 
Thibaut VARENE
http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
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