John.
Thanks for the tip.
I changed ETHER_ALIGN to 0 and the driver started to work.
I am not sure about the performance since I seem to get
only 50 Mbit over a 100 Mbit line. However this is much better
than the timeout warnings...
Thanks for the input. It is really appreciated.
Do you need
We have a Dell poweredge 2650 (successor to 2550).
We also saw the same problem with 4.5. I tried the current bge driver from 4.6
without success. The problem seems to be a size problem. When we ftp a small
file, things work fine. However, when we try a 18 Megabyte file, the ftp
hands and we see
We're experiencing problems with the bge gigabit ethernet driver.
We have a 100 Mbit ethernet network and are running 4.5 standard
install kernels. We have two 4.5 machines A (with a bge gigabit driver)
and machine B with ed0 interface. With small packets or low load,
there is no problem sending
