From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261620AbUBUWFi (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:05:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261623AbUBUWFi (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:05:38 -0500 Received: from web21202.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.18]:26515 "HELO web21202.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261620AbUBUWFh (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Feb 2004 17:05:37 -0500 Message-ID: <20040221220536.34801.qmail@web21202.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:05:36 -0800 (PST) From: Konstantin Kudin Subject: 2.4.24 - unload/load network module -> unstable network To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I do not know if this is significant, but I'll report this just in case. I was troubleshooting a network problem that eventually turned out to be unrelated to the linux box. While doing that I unloaded the standard kernel module for the Broadcom chip {tg3} and loaded {bcm5700} from the vendor instead. At first things seemed fine, but after a few hours the box lost the network and did not respond to ping. The network came up after a network restart (no reboot). I thought that there was a problem with bcm5700, so I unloaded it, and loaded tg3 back. Again, after a few hours the network went down. So I had to reboot to make network stable again. When the tg3 module is loaded during the boot sequence, things are stable for indefinite amount of time. Konstantin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools