On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:27:48PM -0600, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> Dylan Griffiths wrote:
> > Just as an update, I've stopped fighting with the 2.6.20-15-generic
> >included in Feisty and reverted to the 2.6.17-11-generic in
> >Edgy-security. This comes after disabling ipv6 (which made the
> >behaviour of my network subsystem locking up/failing harder to trigger
> >in MythTV, but still easy to trigger in NFS transfers), and also
> >swapping network cards.
>
> As an update to this update, I upgraded my one server machine from a
> single-core to a dual-core CPU. This was under Slackware with 2.6.20.7.
> Going to SMP and using the E1000 driver seemed to lead to lockups
> there, as well. The 2.6.20.7 w/o SMP worked fine with the E1000 driver.
>
> I compiled 2.6.21.6 and 2.6.22.1 with and without SMP, and lucked out
> that the 2.6.22.1 w/ SMP did not lockup under several tests (including
> the tests that showed ~556Mbps throughput!). It seems that anyone who
> has Ubuntu Feisty and an Intel EEPro 1000 card running in SMP will
> experience the troubles I had unless they either:
> -> Change their kernel (2.6.17.x or 2.6.22.x work in my testing).
> -> Change to UMP for their machine (pretty bogus).
> -> Get the Ubuntu folks to fix their Feisty kernel.
As Chris already mentioned, try the e1000 driver from sourceforge.net,
it has always fixed my issues with the e1000 in the past.
-- Jason
Received on Sat Jul 14 12:30:37 2007
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