netdev - TX watchdog warning for sis900

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Date:	Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:38:24 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Simon L'nu <simon.lnu@...il.com>
Cc:	635770@...s.debian.org, Daniele Venzano <venza@...wnhat.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: TX watchdog warning for sis900

[Bug log is at <http://bugs.debian.org/635770>.]

On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 16:25 -0400, Simon L'nu wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 13:42 -0400, Simon L'nu wrote:
> >> Package: linux-2.6
> >> Version: 3.0.0-1
> >> Severity: important
> >> Tags: experimental
> >>
> >> hi,
> >>
> >> so at random times, the driver will just oops with (below), and then the
> >> network just conks out, unable to do anything. when i remove it (modprobe -r) after bringing
> >> it down, and back up, it's extremely slow (see below kernel oops message).
> > [...]
> >
> > Did this happen with any previous version of the kernel package?  What
> > is the last version where this did not happen?
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> >
> 
> no, and only started happening recently. i also tried 2.6.39.2, and it
> started happening there. made me suspect an hardware or firmware
> issue. the PXE firmware option was enabled in BIOS (it's the built-in
> NIC).

Do you mean that you recently enabled PXE boot and that this has started
happening since then?

Ben.


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