Unusable Emulex "oce" driver version in -STABLE, 9.3 and CURRENT

[Borja Marcos]

On Jun 18, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Borja Marcos wrote:

> In my case, the problem manifests itself running 10. Emulex provides a more recent driver which compiles perfectly and works perfectly (if we can safely assume that a weekend saturating a couple of interfaces runnning benchmarks with no glitches is a good hint).
> 
> I am now installing the latest beta of 9.3 to see if I can reproduce the panic. I will follow-up in a couple of hours if possible.

Just a follow-up. 

I ran the tests on 9.3-BETA3. It doesn't panic, but the interface freezes and it's unable to transmit packets. So, it's still unusable.

Now I'm installing the new driver and trying again. Will take time, I have installed the system to a pendrive. 





Borja.