Subject: Re: e1000 driver problems

From: "Kok, Auke" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:40:08 -0800

[moving this discussion to netdev, dropping lkml]

Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:48:52AM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote:
>>> unfortunately, the 7.6.9 driver cannot be compiled with 2.6.24-rc3-git2
>>> kernel due to compilation errors.
>> but the in-kernel version of e1000 supports the ich8 lan device just fine
>> and can be builtin. also this kernel has the first release of e1000e which
>> supports the ich9 onboard lan device.
> 
> I'm afraid, I'm missing the point as you have stated that in-kernel drivers
> have problem with suspicious board hang...

my mistake, sorry for that confusion.

the fake hangs on 82562/6 devices occur on 10mbit link only. You can check in the
code for a line that says:

	adapter->tx_timeout_factor = 8;

change that number to 16 to cope with the problem on 10mbit link partners. However
this won't fix the issue on 100mbit partners and we need to investigate that if
that is the case.

Auke