On 10/28/2011 3:41 PM, Nix wrote: > On 27 Oct 2011, Nick Brown stated: >> Also, as a useful note to anyone else looking to install RHEL6.1 (or >> clones like CentOS6 or Scientific Linux 6), the 82574L ethernet driver >> included in RHEL6 fails after some time. > This bug (PCIe ASPM L1 and L0s being turned off on 82574L due to NIC > errata, but then mysteriously getting turned on again and hanging > sometime later under moderate load) is *still present* upstream: I've > been flicking it off manually on each boot via > > setpci -s 03:00.0 CAP_EXP+10.b=40 > > (where 03:00.0 is the PCI device address). > > I really must get back to diagnosing it, but my 82574Ls are on an > always-on server with my home directory on it, so debugging is *really* > annoying. >
How did you get the OS installed? I take it that you didn't use PXE. This bug made it outright impossible for me to install CentOS 6 on the 6501. I wound up installing Fedora in the interim, where interestingly enough, it is not present... --Kyle _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
