Re: tg3 in 2.6.12-rc6 and Cisco PIX SMTP fixup

[Lars Roland]

On 6/17/05, Christian Kujau <evil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Lars Roland schrieb:
> > It does not seams to be limited to braodcom cards. 3com and Intel e100
> > cards does the exact same stunt on kernels never than 2.6.8.1. Intel
> > e1000 and realtek 8139 cards do however work.
> 
> hm - tricky, i think. because no kernel oopses, nothing to look at in the
> syslog (yes?),

Nothing anywhere, even tcpdump just seams to get cut off - I have not
been debugging ethernet drivers for years, getting a little rusty at
that, so nothing there yet.

> various nic drivers affected, others not...in cases like
> these only Documentation/BUG-HUNTING comes to my mind: if 2.6.8.1 works,
> and 2.6.12-rc6 does not, we'll need to find out the kernelversion which
> introduced this behaviour.

That I can give you, kernel 2.6.8.1 works but 2.6.9 does not (at least
not with tg3 and tulip cards).


Regards.

Lars Roland
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