Subject: Re: e1000: ethtool -p + cable pull = system wedges hard

From: Auke Kok <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:03:35 -0700

Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 	Running both 2.6.17.6 plus the e1000 7.2.7 from sourceforge, or
> the e1000 in netdev-2.6#upstream (7.1.9-k4).
> 
> 	Starting up "ethtool -p ethX" then unplugging the cable
> connected to the identified port is causing my system to completely
> freeze; even sysrq is unresponsive.  I'm running on a 2-way x86 box,
> with an 82545GM.
> 
> 	Is this by any chance a known problem?

not at all.

Can you include the output of `lspci -vv` and `ethtool -e ethX` ? We'll have to 
  go try to reproduce this.

It is certainly not a good thing that it hangs when you try to identify the 
port and unplug the cable, that should certainly work :)

Cheers,

Auke