[Bug 38865] Re: sky2 driver freezing system after ifdown and ifup

[Uriel]

Hello all,

i had the same problem in the past, then i tried to understand what's
was going on the network ,and then i was able to solve the problem for
me.

Problem is this stupid module is going bad with autonegotiation with
some switches (sure with mine!). I solved my problem (i'm using one
Toshiba Tecra A3 to write, with such adapter:) )simply writing

ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off

then , the problem has ceased.

So, i believe the problem when downloading large files happens with
autonegotiation, but i can't be more precise.

hope being useful,

Uriel

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sky2 driver freezing system after ifdown and ifup
https://launchpad.net/bugs/38865