Intel EtherExpress Pro Transmitter crash with 2.2.9 (Ipv6 related?)

[Jason Gunthorpe]

[Please CC, I am not on all the lists :>]

Hi all,

I just upgraded a machine from 2.2.5 to 2.2.9 and had the ethernet driver
fail completely within about 4 hours. I suspect this may have something to
do with the fact that I enabled IPv6 support and connected a tunnel to the
machine (it was live on the 6bone at the time) These are the messages I
got:

May 24 05:33:10 pandora kernel: eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... 
May 24 05:33:20 pandora kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050
0000 at
 36558/36574 command 000c0000. 
May 24 05:33:20 pandora kernel: eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... 
May 24 05:34:35 pandora kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050
0000 at
 37451/37466 command 00000000. 
May 24 05:34:35 pandora kernel: eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter... 
May 24 05:34:55 pandora kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0090
0000 at
 37466/37482 command 000c0000. 
May 24 05:35:30 pandora last message repeated 7 times
May 24 05:36:30 pandora last message repeated 12 times
May 24 05:37:30 pandora last message repeated 12 times
May 24 05:38:30 pandora last message repeated 12 times

It repeats the last message one once a minute till it was rebooted. The
first messages started almost instantly after booting but the card
appeared fine so I let it go.

The driver prints this out when it boots:

May 24 03:57:33 pandora kernel: eth0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 at
0x1420, 00:90:27:2D:97:A7, IRQ 10. 
May 24 03:57:33 pandora kernel:   Board assembly 689661-004, Physical
connectors present: RJ45 
May 24 03:57:33 pandora kernel:   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. 
May 24 03:57:33 pandora kernel:   General self-test: passed. 
May 24 03:57:33 pandora kernel:   Serial sub-system self-test: passed. 
May 24 03:57:33 pandora kernel:   Internal registers self-test: passed. 
May 24 03:57:33 pandora kernel:   ROM checksum self-test: passed
(0x24c9f043).
May 24 03:57:33 pandora kernel:   Receiver lock-up workaround activated. 

If necessary I can probably do some testing, it comes up rather quickly.

Thanks,
Jason