Do you see this only on one of the ports or is it accross all of them? Please send the complete output from dmesg after you had seen the failures. Also cat /proc/interrupts - since you have so many interfaces there's probably a lot of interrupt sharing going on. ethtool -S on the failing interface would also be useful. LED will be on if WOL is enabled (ethtool ethX | grep Wake).
What kind of a system is this (make/model)? If I read the output from lspci correctly - you have 9 dual port NICs - is that right? Thanks, Emil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leigh Sharpe Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:31 PM To: Brandeburg, Jesse Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] Port showing link down at random times Using 8.0.3.1-NAPI, I get the same results. Some further observations: When ethtool reports that the port is down, the LED on the card is still on, and the link partner is showing that the port is up. I have tried it both with and without autoneg, at full duplex and at half duplex. (I'm not using Gigabit, only 10M and 100M) No difference. It is more prevalent when I put more traffic through it. Occasionally I get the TX_unit_Hang messages. (I thought this was fixed long ago?) Any further diagnostics I can provide? -----Original Message----- From: Brandeburg, Jesse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2008 4:22 AM To: Leigh Sharpe Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] Port showing link down at random times Leigh Sharpe wrote: >> what does ethtool -i eth13 say? > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ethtool -i eth13 > driver: e1000 > version: 7.1.9-k4-NAPI > firmware-version: N/A > bus-info: 0000:08:0b.0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > >> also, can you tell us if you see the Intel AMT bios pre-boot screen >> come up? > > No pre-boot screen. > > I'll have a go at the new driver and let you know. oh, my mistake, you don't need e1000e for this device, because you're running an 82546 you can try e1000-7.6.15.5 from sourceforge, no configuration changes necessary, it will probably run both your 82546 and 82566. after that release we split the PCIe support into a new driver, e1000e, and the pci support stayed in e1000 Since I think you have an 82566 also, if you upgrade to e1000-8.X please see http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=125331&group_id=4230 2 as your 82566 hardware will be supported by e1000e and 82546 by e1000. Jesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
