Bug 216801

Summary: sky2 transmitter lockup (Marvell network interface freeze)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Lodewijk Smit <lodewijk_smit>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Lodewijk Smit 2006-11-22 01:06:23 UTC 
Description of problem:

sky2 transmitter lockup
All networking stops every few days; reboot is necessary.

Problem and solution is described in: 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6839

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

We have problems with Marvell 88E8053 gigabit ethernet interface.
This interface is used on all recent ASUS motherboards (e.g. P5W DH Deluxe)
As a consequence, RHEL networking is unreliable on all these systems.

How reproducible:

Difficult, but solution is known :-)

Patch for solving this bug is available in kernel 2.6.18.1  
Can this patch be made available for RHEL 4.4 (backport to kernel 2.6.9)?
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2006-11-28 12:56:29 UTC 
dup of bug #216799
Comment 2 Jason Baron 2006-11-30 18:19:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216799 ***