Bug 497526

Summary: Attansic NIC driver disconnects/reconnects with network
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nick Maliszewskyj <nickm>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 10CC: itamar, kernel-maint, maurizio.antillon
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Description Nick Maliszewskyj 2009-04-24 13:30:44 UTC
Description of problem:
Attansic NIC driver periodically disconnects from and reconnects
to the network, disrupting homegrown network applications. The
events appear to happen between 1-4 hours apart with no discernible
pattern.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Driver is version 2.0.4
Kernel is 2.6.170

How reproducible:
This problem is persistent.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot
2.Keep running for a little while
3.
  
Actual results:

The server experiences periodic disconnections which disrupt homegrown
network applications. Combing through /var/log/messages, I find hundreds
of notices like the following.

Apr 24 07:40:54 ng7sans kernel: eth0: txs packet size do not coinsist with txd txd_:0x2c30202c, txs_:0x000105ea!
Apr 24 07:40:54 ng7sans kernel: txd read ptr: 0x17a0
Apr 24 07:40:54 ng7sans kernel: txs-behind:0x8001024f
Apr 24 07:40:54 ng7sans kernel: txs-before:0x000105ea
Apr 24 07:40:54 ng7sans kernel: eth0: txs packet size do not coinsist with txd txd_:0x2c30202c, txs_:0x0001024f!
Apr 24 07:40:54 ng7sans kernel: txd read ptr: 0x17d0
Apr 24 07:40:54 ng7sans kernel: txs-behind:0x0001004e
Apr 24 07:40:54 ng7sans kernel: txs-before:0x000105ea
Apr 24 07:41:03 ng7sans kernel: atl2: eth0 NIC Link is Up<100 Mbps Full Duplex>

Often I find the "NIC Link is Up" message without the txs/txd error messages.

Expected results:
Smooth sailing like any other NIC.

Additional info:

Here's a snippet from lspci -v to indicate what card we're working with:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L2 100 Mbit Ethernet Adapter (rev a0)
	Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8233
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
	Memory at dffc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
	Expansion ROM at dffa0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
	Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
	Capabilities: [48] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-
	Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Kernel driver in use: atl2
	Kernel modules: atl2

Additionally I have found references to this issue on Ubuntu forums.

Comment 1 Chuck Ebbert 2009-04-24 19:31:40 UTC
I'm pretty sure this is fixed in the 2.6.29 kernels.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-04-28 02:08:41 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.2-52.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.2-52.fc10

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-05-02 16:31:59 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.2-52.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-4132

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2009-05-11 15:07:40 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.3-60.fc10,hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.3-60.fc10,hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2009-05-12 04:08:16 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.3-60.fc10, hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel hal'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-4818

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2009-05-25 23:08:37 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.4-75.fc10,hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.4-75.fc10,hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2009-05-27 19:05:19 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.4-75.fc10, hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel hal'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-5527

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2009-06-17 12:07:51 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.5-84.fc10,hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.5-84.fc10,hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2009-06-19 13:38:00 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.5-84.fc10, hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel hal'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-6717

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2009-07-07 15:09:03 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.6-93.fc10,hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.6-93.fc10,hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2009-07-16 06:58:50 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.6-93.fc10, hal-0.5.12-15.20081027git.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel hal'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-7573

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2009-08-15 14:00:15 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.6-97.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.6-97.fc10

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2009-08-17 22:04:35 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.6-97.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-8697

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2009-08-20 03:57:47 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.6-99.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-2.6.29.6-99.fc10

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2009-08-22 01:04:07 UTC
kernel-2.6.29.6-99.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-8870

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