Uhm, no emerge --info at all. It's just a patch for the tg3 kernel module, because they're bugged like hell. Check URL for more information. Patch goes here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115056877413890&w=2 Would be nice if someone adds this to the kernel ebuild.
Aye. Just forgot the problem. oO NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out tg3: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=2c00 enable_bit=2 tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=1400 enable_bit=2 tg3: tg3_stop_block timed out, ofs=4800 enable_bit=2 tg3: eth0: Link is down. And the link isn't down at all. Check URL for more infos about this bug.
Spamming. Yay. Another workaround is: ethtool -K eth0 tso off Thanks to satmd.
Possible workaround: manually disabling TSO ethtool -K eth0 tso off (effectively disables link autonegation?) The patch disabled TSO for those NICs that cannot use TSO and prevents exactly the problem my command tries to work around. Please include this patch :)
*** Bug 142097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #3) > Possible workaround: > manually disabling TSO > ethtool -K eth0 tso off > (effectively disables link autonegation?) > > The patch disabled TSO for those NICs that cannot use TSO and prevents exactly > the problem my command tries to work around. > > Please include this patch :) Could you please try 2.6.18_rc2 and see if that problem still exists ? I've just checked both, the netdev-2.6-git and linux-git trees and nowhere is that patch from Michael Chan included.
Please test this patch against 2.6.17, it is included in the 2.6.18-rc releases and should be a better fix: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=115163090731530&q=raw
see comment #6
