Re: Ethernet still unreliable in 2944

[Jay Cliburn <jacliburn bellsouth net>]

Riku Seppälä wrote:
> I'm maybe having different problem, but ethernet does not work for me. 
> It looks like this bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8090
> that was supposed to been fixed almost two months ago. 

The patch referenced in kernel bug report 8090 was applied 28 March and is in 
2.6.21-rc7.  (It's also in -rc5; I didn't check any kernels earlier than that.)

commit 4db43e677ec2dcfb6129d5e557ed4795f9e4a031
Merge: 935c631... a9c87a1...
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds woody linux-foundation org>
Date:   Wed Mar 28 13:45:13 2007 -0700

    Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git

    * 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/ne
      SUN3/3X Lance trivial fix improved
      mv643xx_eth: Fix use of uninitialized port_num field
      forcedeth: fix tx timeout
--->  forcedeth: fix nic poll
      qla3xxx: bugfix: Jumbo frame handling.
      qla3xxx: bugfix: Dropping interrupt under heavy network load.
      qla3xxx: bugfix: Multi segment sends were getting whacked.
      qla3xxx: bugfix: Add tx control block memset.
      atl1: remove unnecessary crc inversion
      myri10ge: correctly detect when TSO should be used
      [PATCH] WE-22 : prevent information leak on 64 bit
      [PATCH] wext: Add missing ioctls to 64<->32 conversion
      [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix machine check on PPC for version 1 PHY
      [PATCH] bcm43xx: fix radio_set_tx_iq
      [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix code for confusion between PHY revision and PHY versi