On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 04:44:52PM -0600, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > We have a system with an Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard that has > an onboard Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit LAN Controller. > > The system hung a day ago with the following errors: > Feb 9 08:50:07 astro kernel: sky2 eth0: tx timeout > Feb 9 08:50:07 astro kernel: sky2 hardware hung? flushing > Feb 9 08:57:57 astro kernel: sky2 eth0: tx timeout > > sky2 is the driver for the aforementioned network device. > Our kernel version is 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp > > I googled the error and found references to bugs in sky2 > for older kernels. > > Has anyone else seen this problem? Does anyone know of a patch? FWIW I saw this bug for quite some time on newer kernels as well. Recently it has silenced a bit, even too much: sky2 may lose the interface connection w/o any hint in logs or /proc. Only thing that (often but not always) helps is rmmod sky2 and modprobing it again. Perhaps sk98lin is a better choice, I don't know. If you want to try that it's available at ATrpms. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net