Description of problem: I installed Mageia on a new computer with an ethernet adapter Intel 82579V. Sometimes the access to my router is blocked for minutes. During this time pings from this computer and also from a second computer to the router got lost. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579V Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 0491 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42 Region 0: Memory at fa100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Region 1: Memory at fa128000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 2: I/O ports at f040 [size=32] Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME- Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 00000000feeff00c Data: 41a9 Capabilities: [e0] PCI Advanced Features AFCap: TP+ FLR+ AFCtrl: FLR- AFStatus: TP- Kernel driver in use: e1000e Kernel modules: e1000e ######################################### ethtool i eth0 driver: e1000e version: 1.2.20-k2 firmware-version: 0.13-4 bus-info: 0000:00:19.0 ######################################### How reproducible: The bug is not reprodusible. More: I saw no specific log entries when the failure occures. Wireshark logging on the interface doesn't yield a result. It seems that the bug happens less frequent when the ethernet card is configured for 10MBit/s and autoneg=no.
From Intel recommended actual driver is File name: e1000e-1.4.4.tar.gz Version: 1.4.4 Date: 07/18/2011 Status: Latest http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=15817
Operating with Windows 7 is error free.
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb
Did it work correctly with 2.6.38.7-1.maga1 ?
I am not sure. I updated to 2.6.38.8-4.mga very soon after I did the first install. Which driver version is included in 2.6.37 ? Maybe I should try to fall back.
It's the same version, but your issue might be with another patch added in 2.6.38.8-4* So either try 2.6.37.7-1 or kernel-linus-2.6.38.8-1 to rule out any mageia added patch...
This is what I did so far: I tried 2.6.37.7-1 -> same error Switched back to 2.6.38.8-4 and installed the new recommended driver from Intel -> same error Then I saw, that the error is getting harder the more tcp sessions I have opened. To find out what the relation is I used a looping script that pings my dsl router for 1 minute and reports the % of lost packages and the the tcp session count. I found that the error is there when I opened > approximately 20 sessions. I dont' know why I did it, but I upgraded the firmware of my router (Linksys WRT54GL) and this solved the problem. I still don't know what the reason for the problem was, but since a few days I got no lost packages at all. So, it was not a bug in Mageia. This bug can be closed.
Closing.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => sander.lepikResolution: (none) => INVALID