Under load, sky2 causes the system to hang. The only output on the console is the following: [55022.353219] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out [55022.358356] sky2 eth0: tx timeout [55022.361753] sky2 status report lost? The problem exists in all kernels I've tested: 2.6.17 through 2.6.19-rc6-mm2. Every now and again the network device will crash, but won't take the system down with it, and I'm able to recover with rmmod sky2 / modprobe sky2. If the system does crash, after a reset, sky2 does not come up properly, but unloading and reloading the module will recover it. There is no appreciable difference with receive checksums disabled. The device: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 20) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet controller PCIe (Asus) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 16 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 315 Region 0: Memory at fa9fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Region 2: I/O ports at c800 [size=256] Expansion ROM at fa9c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME- Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable+ Address: 00000000fee0300c Data: 41a1 Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0 Device: Supported: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, ExtTag- Device: Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited Device: AtnBtn- AtnInd- PwrInd- Device: Errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported- Device: RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop- Device: MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes Link: Supported Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s, Port 0 Link: Latency L0s <256ns, L1 unlimited Link: ASPM Disabled RCB 128 bytes CommClk+ ExtSynch- Link: Speed 2.5Gb/s, Width x1 This is the onboard ethernet on ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe. I am only using one of the ethernet ports, the other is disabled in the BIOS.
Another case of driver not working on 88E8053. I don't have this hardware to debug/fix problem so resolution will be slow. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7579 ***