As a followup for anyone who might be waiting on RHEL6.2 in hopes that it will resolve this issue. I booted the RHEL6.2 beta this weekend, and it appears that the kernel included (at least for the installer) still has the 'bad' NIC driver for the 82574L.
-Nick On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Kyle Brantley <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
