On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 04:24:07PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Vignaud wrote:

Hello, i have a very similar problem with 2.6.21 also;

2 3com NICs and they are failling randomly.

The kernel is a basic fedora 7 kernel (2.6.21-1.3228.fc7)
I found a bug report and added details here : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243960

I'm not subcribed on this list, so please cc me if there is any questions.

JB

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:10:17AM +0200, Marcin Ślusarz wrote:
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I reproduced it on minimal config:

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We know your hardware should be OK - since it was fine with 2.6.20.

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It looks like there is something common in the air...

Marcin: ne2k_pci with 8390, Jean: 3com, and now I see
similar problem with 8139cp too (plus some ideas):

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118293314109648&w=2

So, you probably should wait a little & look for new patches here.

Cheers,
Jarek P.