I (and a lot of other users) have been experiencing the frequent sky2 transmit timeout problem [1] (on 88E8053/Yukon2 EC gig hardware); this is a result of the embedded NIC controller locking up, and I've found that updating the firmware addresses this issue. I'm still seeing a previous and different issue [2] from time to time though (silicon bug?). Marvell shipping broken firmware is completely unpublicised or acknowledged, however updated firmware is available through your motherboard vendor, so all hope it not lost after all... My 8053/EC is using firmware 2.2 (previously 1.9) - you can check in DOS with 'yukondg.exe' from http://www.marvell.com/drivers/files/yukondg_v6.53.4.3.zip . Thanks, Daniel --- [1] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (sky2): transmit timed out sky2 eth0: tx timeout sky2 eth0: transmit ring 20 .. 491 report=20 done=20 ... --- [2] sky2 eth0: hung mac 1:119 fifo 7 (90:163) sky2 eth0: receiver hang detected sky2 eth0: disabling interface sky2 eth0: enabling interface -- Daniel J Blueman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
