As I started to migrate data from an old laptop to a new one (Asus M50SA) which has 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13) I detected that copying the files from old laptop using sshfs didn't work properly. The amount of data being copied is up to 10 GB.
Once sshfs failed completely and segfaulted due to network errors. During the transfer new messages (e.g. sky2 eth0: rx error, status 0x2c20002 length 706) keep appearing in dmesg.
So, now I'm very concerned that the file transfer worked ok and managed to transfer all the data correctly.
The development (or rather bug fixing which has been going on since 2006 for 88E family) seems to be very active. In the latest kernel rc (2.6.25-rc9) there's a whole bunch of changes in the sky2 module (drivers/net/sky2.c 151 + 124 - 0 ! ) http://www.kernel.org/diff/diffview.cgi?file=%2Fpub%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fv2.6%2Ftesting%2Fpatch-2.6.25-rc9.bz2;z=4589 .
I think it is vital to keep some new version of sky2 backported to hardy heron.
Hi Jarkko,
Just curious if you've tested the upstream changes (ie tested the 2.6.25-rc9 kernel) to verify these changes do indeed fix the issue you are seeing? For help with building and booting the upstream kernel, refer to: https:/