On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
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?).
Thanks for the info. I've been dealing with this problem for some long time, hopefully sky driver from the latest kernels is able to recover from such hangs, so it is not that critical problem now.
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...
Unfortunately not through all vendors. :( Or maybe not *yet*?
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 .
Stephen, is it possible for sky2 driver to check and print the firmware version?
Best regards, Krzysztof Olędzki
