Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755932AbYKKJ7n (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:59:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755138AbYKKJ7d (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:59:33 -0500 Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:16672 "EHLO david.siemens.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753299AbYKKJ7c (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:59:32 -0500 Message-ID: <491958E3.1030501@siemens.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:05:23 +0100 From: "Hillier, Gernot" Organization: Siemens AG, CT SE 2 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20070801 SUSE/2.0.0.9-0.1 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Graham, David" , "Fodor, Zoltan" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Allan, Bruce W" , "Hockert, Jeff W" Subject: Re: e1000e: sporadic "hardware error"s with Intel 82563EB on Supermicro X7DB3 References: <48EE04C0.6070504@siemens.com> <48F463D1.70605@siemens.com> <48F766CB.3030603@siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <48F766CB.3030603@siemens.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1579 Lines: 45 Dear Dave, On 2008-10-16, Hillier, Gernot wrote: > Hi there! > > Graham, David wrote: >> It would help if you could provide a little more information. Could you >> provide (for one of each of the two configurations that you have - one >> with the IPMI card, one without): >> >> lspci -t >> lspci -vvv -xxxx >> ethtool -e eth0 > > Ok, it turned out that we still can reproduce the problem - even after the > firmware upgrade. So I collected the information you requested from two > machines: Wanted to let you know that this problem seems to be fixed for us. We received a preliminary update from Supermicro which contains a new NIC firmware 2.5 they recently received from your side with improved Shared LAN support (56313.eep, release date 2008-10-01) . After flashing this update together with a new BMC card firmware 1.59, the problem has finally vanished for us. (For some reason, only updating the NIC firmware wasn't possible, so we can't unfortunately nail down which update part really fixed the problem.) 1.5 days of an rmmod/insmod loop and 2.5 days of a complete OS reboot loop now have been passed w/o problems. Both tests triggered the problem reliably within at most one day before. So thanks again for your help! -- With kind regards, Gernot Hillier Siemens AG, Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- 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/