with atl1e driver: Corrupted MAC on input

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Jun 2 02:44:17 UTC 2009


On 05/30/2009 04:36 PM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> I believe I have detected a significant problem with the "atl1e" driver for
> the Attansic Technology Corp. Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet
> Controller (rev b0) when running Fedora 11 preview with the latest updates.

I added to the bug that I'm seeing this on two machines with the same 
NIC - one Asus-board desktop, and an eeePC, both on RC2.  I thought I 
was seeing it sooner on the desktop, but that appears to have just been 
random bad luck, both can go for several minutes (gigabit) without errors.

> Although my problem occurred when I was running scp, I believe that the
> problem could also occur with other forms of data transfer and only show up
> as corrupted data (files).

I'm glad I use rsync.  One thing it does is send a checksum when it's 
done transferring a file.  Inevitably, I try something else and wind up 
using rsync in the end!

>  Thus, I thought this email appropriate to warn
> other users.  My current "solution" is to install another NIC.

That's one heck of a recommended workaround for a regression.  I can't 
seem to find the PCIe connector on the netbook. :)

-Bill

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