Broadcom Tigon3 "tg3" ethernet driver in Proxmox kernel is buggy or old

DavidGA

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Aug 12, 2024
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The tg3 driver included in the Proxmox VE kernel for Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet occasionally crashes out with:

Code:
DMA Status error.  Resetting chip.

Usually the interface comes back after a few seconds. Sometimes it doesn't, and the system must be rebooted.

This is the exact bug described in the Red Hat knowledge base, here:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/69382

The solution is to simply update the kernel, however, the "fixed" version is old, from 2012.

I don't know why the current VE kernel is broken, but, could this be investigated?
 

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