On 24.10.2012 02:04, Dave, Tushar N wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: `VL [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 11:35 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [E1000-devel] e1000 (pci): TX unit hang >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> Under any significant load the driver starts producing detected Tx Unit >> hang messages and resets adapter, thus networking is not really usable. >> By significant load i mean an attempt to download big (>2 Mb) file over >> ssh. >> The bug is 100% reproducible. >> >> It looks like the problem is known for a long time, but there is some mess >> with linux e1000 drivers: it looks like kernel contains 7.x version >> (alive) and there is 8.x version by intel on sourceforge (not maintained >> and doesn't compile for newer kernels). A lot of suggestions are about >> intel's version of the driver. >> >> Please sched some light on the situation with e1000 in linux... >> >> P.S. I've submitted a bug to the linux kernel: >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47331 >> it has all additional info you may be interested. > The Intel e1000 out of box (Sourceforge) driver is end of life and only > in-kernel e1000 driver is supported. > I can certainly help you with the tx hang issue. I will follow up this issue > on bugzill@kernel Thank you! I've understood that sourceforge driver is end of life, but I want to understand how is it related to what is in the kernel now. Is it absolutely another driver or it is an older version of this one or something third?
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