Re: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

2005-10-04 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
my non working card is 82547EI aka 1000CT. Darren Pilgrim wrote: From: Chuck Swiger People who have em NICs, and who do not have problems, probably do not report regularly that their Intel 10/100/1000 NIC works fine, even though it does, at least for them. I've got a dozen or so machines w

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
on here. also something that should be noted its not very common for someone to be running the type of constant load that i do on my system and thats probably why more people arent reporting this issue. Chuck Swiger wrote: Benjamin Rosenblum wrote: i have been messing with the em driver now

Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((

2005-10-04 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
i have been messing with the em driver now for over a month, ive come to the conclusion is a piece of crap. if you watch on this list every other day you have someone saying there em driver is causing some sort of error, this should not be on a nic from a company like intel. im saddly contimp

Re: em(4) receive part wedging randomly at moderate load

2005-09-26 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
fixes the problem but until then i would like some sort of fix for this. Petri Helenius wrote: Benjamin Rosenblum wrote: the em driver in itself is extremly buggy. many people, myself included, are hitting some major problems with this driver that are causeing some serious issues. i cant

Re: em(4) receive part wedging randomly at moderate load

2005-09-26 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
the em driver in itself is extremly buggy. many people, myself included, are hitting some major problems with this driver that are causeing some serious issues. i cant transfer any large files to my server because the em driver panics and drops the connection for 15-20 seconds. its a real pa

Problems with SK and EM network cards/drivers on my system

2005-09-18 Thread Benjamin Rosenblum
Im having an issue with my new linksys eg1032 nic and the onboard intel 82547EI on my new server. ill go over both problems individually and include my dmesg below that. First the SK problem. Sep 18 13:43:50 Valhalla kernel: skc0: port 0xc400-0xc4ff mem 0xfeafec00-0xfeafecff irq 21 at devi