Am Sonntag, den 08.10.2006, 09:20 -0700 schrieb Stephen Hemminger:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:41:45 +0200
> Matthias Hentges <oe@hentges.net> wrote:

[...]

> > 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?

2.6.18 does not require the patch ( in fact, the patch won't apply at
all) and thus does not freeze when the NIC goes down.

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

I've attached the lspci dump of both onboard sky2 NICs.

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

+root@mhcln01:..patches/generic/coretemp >dmesg |grep sky2
[   34.833453] sky2 v1.7 addr 0xfa9fc000 irq 17 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2
[   34.833527] sky2 eth0: addr 00:17:31:f4:f1:8c
[   34.833663] sky2 v1.7 addr 0xfa8fc000 irq 16 Yukon-EC (0xb6) rev 2
[   34.833729] sky2 eth1: addr 00:17:31:f4:f7:cc
[   42.165687] sky2 eth1: enabling interface
[   43.847972] sky2 eth1: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow
control both

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Matthias 'CoreDump' Hentges 

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