On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelg...@google.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Joseph A. Millikan > <josephamilli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> We use Mint 11 32-bit and we've noticed with any kernel beyond 3.6.11, the >> Ethernet port stops responding to pings after 15 minutes and samba clients >> cease to receive data in realtime. I hope this is the correct place to >> report this as we received a nasty, sullen response when posted with the >> Ubuntu folks (which we will NEVER do again.) >> >> If you aren't the proper party to whom we should direct this report, please >> disregard. We were just trying to help developers if there is an >> undiscovered issue with Ethernet ports on Lenovo G770 laptops which our >> court uses with Mint 11. > > What specific kernels have you tried? It'd be surprising if such an > egregious issue went unnoticed for long, but if recent kernels like > 3.8 or 3.9-rc are still broken, there's likely something we need to > fix. Can you collect complete dmesg logs from 3.6.11 and the oldest > broken kernel you've found? You might also run "watch cat > /proc/interrupts" in a window off to the side and see if the NIC > interrupt count stops increasing after 15 minutes.
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