From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262517AbULDAbu (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:31:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262515AbULDAbt (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:31:49 -0500 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:56283 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262514AbULDAaU (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 19:30:20 -0500 Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 01:26:57 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: Nicholas Papadakos Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: realtek r8169 + kernel 2.4.24 (openmosix) Message-ID: <20041204002657.GA26399@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> References: <200412032336.iB3NaiCk027949@rosebud.otenet.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200412032336.iB3NaiCk027949@rosebud.otenet.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicholas Papadakos : [...] > I am trying to use a realtek r8169 gigabit Ethernet levelone card as a link > between two machines that are cluster using openmosix, However whenever I > try to transfer large amounts of data after 5 secs the connections freezes. > I found a similar older post with an attacked patch to try, I tried it but > the problem remained. Any help ? > I don't want to upgrade kernel to something else as I need openmosix to keep > running. I know it's fri^Wsatursday but it does not help if you do not specify which patch you applied. At a minimum, you want to upgrade the sources of the r8169 driver up to a more recent 2.4.x: simply drop a drivers/net/r8169.c from the latest 2.4.x into your 2.4.24 tree, rebuild and report the result (+ complete dmesg + lspci -vx + lsmod for my collection please). Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com is welcome. -- Ueimor