Bug 169257

Summary:	nForce ethernet driver forcedeth sometimes stops working
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vlado Potisk <reg.bugs>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version:	3	CC:	wtogami
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Description Vlado Potisk 2005-09-26 09:06:12 UTC

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Description of problem:
The FC3 kernel is affected by an annoying bug, fix is available upstream already. Please include it in the next kernel release.

The symptoms are:
- problem occurs on mainboards with the nForce4 chipset
- after some time the NIC suddenly stops working
- this message appears in the log repeatedly:
  nv_stop_tx: TransmitterStatus remained busy<7>eth0: tx_timeout:dead entries!
- reboot does not help, power must be switched off to make the NIC working again.

More information about the problem and the fix can be found here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4552

Bug 167674 concerning RHEL3 is similar to this.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
No special steps, just check if the LAN interface on a mainboard with the nForce4 mainboard is still working. In my case it locks up about once a day.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Vlado Potisk 2005-09-26 09:12:02 UTC

I clicked twice on the sumbit button, this is dup of the #169256. Sorry.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169256 ***