Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:21:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tg3 stops working when NFS is involved
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Matt Carlson wrote:
> This seems to be a common problem with the 5906 on some
> notebooks.  The word on the street is that turning sg off through
> ethtool seems to avoid the problem.

Well, I must've been on the wrong streets then, this was news to me...

> While I dig deeper into this
> problem, you could try that and see if it helps you.

Yes, "ethtool -K eth0 sg off" does indeed help here too: I've already 
transmitted a few gigabytes of traffic (the problem occured after a few 
megabytes lastly) and all is still well.

Thanks for your quick response!
Christian.
-- 
BOFH excuse #273:

The cord jumped over and hit the power switch.
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