Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755330AbYJHK3g (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:29:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753310AbYJHK3Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:29:25 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:58824 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753231AbYJHK3Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2008 06:29:24 -0400 To: "Hillier\, Gernot" Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bruce.w.allan@intel.com Subject: Re: e1000e: sporadic "hardware error"s with Intel 82563EB on Supermicro X7DB3 References: <48EB7161.60004@siemens.com> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:29:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <48EB7161.60004@siemens.com> (Gernot Hillier's message of "Tue\, 07 Oct 2008 16\:25\:37 +0200") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 910 Lines: 24 Hi, "Hillier, Gernot" writes: > On at least two machines using the Supermicro X7DB3 board with Intel > 82563EB (a.k.a. PCI device 8086:1096), we see sporadic problems on modprobe > (about 1 time in some hundred tries): > > e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 0.3.3.3-k2 > e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Intel Corporation. > e1000e 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 > e1000e 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > 0000:06:00.0: 0000:06:00.0: Hardware Error What does "lspci -vv" say about it when the above happens? I spurious chip reset (hardware) could probably cause that. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/