Toshi
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Joined: 10 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: network hiccup on X11 forward |
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Hi,
I have tried to find a similar problem in the forum but was unable to find one...
While switching from the fglrx to the radeon driver, I recompiled a couple of related packages and built a new kernel. This is how it got started.
My notebook (Acer Travelmate 804LCi) has a broadcom network chip which uses the b44 driver.
The network connection is stable, as long as I do not open any application via X11 forward.
What I do is, I connect to another machine in my network via ssh -Y -C.
Then I start thunderbird (or firefox) on the remote machine.
As soon as I hit enter, my network interface starts to constantly drop and restart.
dmesg outputs a constant flow of:
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b44: eth0: Link is down.
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
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As soon as I terminate the remote X11 application, the network link is stable again!
I do not know if this is a bug or if I removed some critical parameter from my kernel when I rebuilt it.
My kernel version is gentoo-sources 2.6.18-r3 atm and I use a menu-configed genkernel.
If anyone wants any further information, ask ahead... |
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