From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750790AbVHVUGQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:06:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750798AbVHVUGP (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:06:15 -0400 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:18141 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750767AbVHVUGP (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:06:15 -0400 Message-ID: <430A0B69.1060304@xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:29:13 +0200 From: Udo van den Heuvel User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 OpenPGP: id=8300CC02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, It appears that the VIA Rhine chipset has some sort of bug which shows up in both the standard Linux VIA-Rhine driver and the Rhinefet driver that VIA itself provides. The difference is that the connection is dropped in case of the standard Linux driver for VIA Rhine but that the connection remains OK with the Rhinefet driver provided by VIA (http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/Source/rhinefet.tgz and other places on viaarena.com...). So VIA Rhinefet driver consumes more CPU but is also more stable. I wrote about this issue before: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/82 & http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/15/47 etc. I opened a bugzilla case: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5030 Who could find out why the standard Linux driver chokes and the Rhinefet driver doesn't? Who could fix this bug? Kind regards, Udo