gurgel
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Joined: 20 Apr 2004
Posts: 22
Location: Esbo, Finland
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 Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:36 pm Post subject: Weird networking problems after kernel upgrade |
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I recently upgraded my kernel from development-sources-2.6.5 to development-sources-2.6.10-r1. In addition to upgrading to a newer version, I configured a few this differently in the new kernel; I added libata support + basic SCSI support for my SATA disks, and added some i2c-stuff needed by lm_sensors. With the new kernel, networking has been very much slower than before. In /var/log/messages I get lots of messages like this
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Jan 20 22:10:05 gurgel NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Jan 20 22:10:05 gurgel eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status 786d, resetting...
Jan 20 22:10:05 gurgel eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0021
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The ethernet controller is a VIA 6103 PHY, integrated on the moderboard (EPoX 8KRAi). I use the Via Rhine driver, which worked well with kernel-2.6.5.
One really strange thing is that networking speed seems to depend on how much I move the mouse (USB); if I don't touch the mouse at all, networking speed is down to a few hundred bytes/s. During normal interactive use (i.e. I move the mouse every now and then), the speed is about 40-50 kB/s, and if I move the mouse violently the speed increases to 100-500 kB/s (which was normal speed when I used the older kernel).
Does anyone have an idea what the cause might be, and how the problem could be fixed?
All help is appreciated. |
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