Hello,
I'm really new to Scientific Linux and I was trying 6.0 on a new
server that should be a NFS box.
I've a very strange problem with a e1g44etblk pci express card that I
bought with the server: it is based on a intel 82576 chipset, the same
of the integrated on board NICS.
I've tested this card on a different box running ubuntu 10.04, and
there it works perfectly, but if on this other box I install as well SL
6.0, I have the same problem, that's why it seems to me a software issue
with SL 6.0.
I'll go more in the details below:
Runnnig kernel version 2.6.32-71.18.2.el6.x86_64, when I test iperf
on the integrated NIC, all is ok:
ethtool -i eth0
driver: igb
version: 2.1.0-k2
firmware-version: 1.2-3
bus-info: 0000:0d:00.0
And iperf gives 933 Mbit/sec or so.
If I run iperf on the pci express nic, ifconfig reports tons of
errors, the card sort of hangs, and I must reboot to make the card work
again:
before iperf:
ethtool -i eth4
driver: igb
version: 2.1.0-k2
firmware-version: 1.2-1
bus-info: 0000:06:00.0
After iperf:
ethtool -i eth4
driver: igb
version: 2.1.0-k2
firmware-version: 15.255-15
bus-info: 0000:06:00.0
and ethtool -e eth4 is:
Offset Values
------ ------
0x0000 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0010 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0020 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0030 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0040 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0050 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0060 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0070 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
bla
bla
bla
with ifconfig eth4
eth4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1B:21:93:B5:2B
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:921359 errors:57638461098900
dropped:11527692219780 overruns:11527780147622 frame:46110768879120
TX packets:232783 errors:23055384439560 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:34583076659340
collisions:11527692219780 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:206382316 (196.8 MiB) TX bytes:228814475 (218.2 MiB)
Memory:f8be0000-f8c00000
I've tried as well with the intel driver (2.4.13), no joy.
This is my /proc/cmdline
ro root=UUID=c7fee896-59c1-439d-9a6b-8df14a193de5 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM
rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us noapic acpi=off crashkernel=129M@0M rhgb quiet
Any suggestion? I can provide dmidecode of the two motherboards, but it
seems to me more a kernel problem than other...
Regards
Raimondo
