From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: When initiating the netdump process, the netconsole.o module calls netdump_startup_handshake() which never returns, or prints anything on the console. network card is (tg3 driver): eth0: Tigon3 [partno(TBD) rev 1002 PHY(5703)] (PCIX:100MHz:64-bit) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:0b:cd:0f:49:db The same setup and kernel works perfectly (ie dumps the kernel image) with (eepro100 driver): eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:08:02:10:C4:16, IRQ 5. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-19 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. setup netdump client with tg3 network card 2. monitor system/serial console 3. cause client to panic Actual Results: No memory dump is performed; no further response from netdump (ie hangs) Expected Results: Memory dump to be spooled to netdump-server Additional info:
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