Re: XFS and tg3 driver

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

At 14:09 3-1-2003 -0600, Daniel E. Shipton wrote:
>Is anyone using a Broadcom card with the tg3 driver on a smp system. We
>have a dell 4600 that locks every other day. There is a redhat errata
>about this at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-292.html .  I
>can't find a patch for that kernel to fix our problem......any
>suggestions?

Install the kernel-source rpm. Download the tg3 1.2 driver from 
http://people.redhat.com/garzik/ and patch the driver.

Recompile this kernel and the lockups should go away. As noted on 
linux-poweredge@dell.com the actual speed may be of influence as well. Most 
people that see the crashes are using the card in 100Mbit mode. I myself 
and a few others have not seen this problem yet on with the card connected 
at gigabit speeds.

The 2.4.18-19 kernel still did not fix the lockups reading comments from 
the other list.

Cheers

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Seth
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