On 1 April 2011 16:47, Raimondo Giammanco [VKICC] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  Currently I have the original box up and running with the pci card in
> "hanged" mode.

> 06:00.1 "Ethernet controller" "Intel Corporation" "82576 Gigabit Network
> Connection" -rff -pff "" ""
> 06:00.1 0200: 8086:10e8 (rev ff)
> 09:00.0 "Ethernet controller" "Intel Corporation" "82576 Gigabit Network
> Connection" -r01 "Super Micro Computer Inc" "Device 10c9"

That is interesting.

As I do not, at present, have access to a SL 6.0 system I've tested on
my RHEL 6.0 based laptop. By using the "double grep" technique I see
--

[quote]
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ grep 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 10c9
/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.18.2.el6.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d000010C9sv*sd*bc*sc*i* igb
/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d000010C9sv*sd*bc*sc*i* igb
[ajb@Duo2 ~]$ grep 8086 /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i 10e8
/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.18.2.el6.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d000010E8sv*sd*bc*sc*i* igb
/lib/modules/2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64/modules.alias:alias
pci:v00008086d000010E8sv*sd*bc*sc*i* igb
[/quote]

-- where the 8086:10c9 device is "good" and the 8086:01eb device is
"bad". So the distro igb driver should be appropriate for both
devices.

You mention that you have another system with 8086:01eb devices. Does
that system also suffer from the same "hanging" issue? What I am
trying to determine is whether it is a general problem with the distro
igb driver and 8086:01eb devices or if it is just a problem with the
8086:01eb device in the Super Micro based system.

Even before I see your response, I will mention that there is an
updated igb driver available as a kernel independent, kABI tracking
kmod package in the elrepo repository. Assuming you have the standard
SL 6.0 installation, the following would allow you to install the
updated driver --

[code]
yum --disablerepo \* --enablerepo elrepo install kmod-igb
telinit 6
[/code]

If, after testing, the issue is still present then the removal of the
updated driver would be the inverse of the above --

[code]
yum remove kmod-igb
telinit 6
[/code]

Alan.