On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:41:45 +0200
Matthias Hentges [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Stephen,

I believe I have identified the problem. The freeze only happens when
your debug patch to work around sky2 PCIe error messages is applied.
Without your patch (attached) I get _tons_ of error messages and the NIC
dies every few seconds / minutes (reproduceable!), but the system
recovers just fine from a NIC crash.

I have verified this behavior (works fine w/o debug patch, freezes with
patch applied) with:
- 2.6.19-rc1-git4 
- 2.6.18-git something 
- 2.6.18-mm3
  

Does 2.6.18 work?

What is the PCI config of the device (lspci -vvvx)?

What is the chip version (dmesg | grep sky2)?