Bug 10219

Summary:	MinnowBoard MAX 0.93 64-Bit & network lost
Product:	[Hardware Platforms] MinnowBoard MAX Firmware	Reporter:	Abdelghani Ouchabane <abdelghani>
Component:	minnowboard-firmware	Assignee:	He, Tim <tim.he>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Medium	CC:	dscully, sjolley.yp.pm
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	Production Release
Hardware:	MinnowBoard Max
OS:	x86_64
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Abdelghani Ouchabane 2016-09-05 09:29:52 UTC

I am using CentOS 7-64 bit and I want to report that the network gets lost from time to time with MinnowBoard MAX + 0.93 64-Bit and I have not seen this behavior at all with the previous the firmware versions.

Steps to reproduce it:

1. Flash the board with the MinnowBoard MAX 0.93 64-Bit
2. Reboot the board
3. SSH into the board from the host PC through SSH
4. After a while the SSH connection gets lost
4. I had to restart the network service with: systemctl restart network , in order to get the SSH back.

After I downgraded the firmware to 0.92 64-bit the issue disappeared.

Comment 1 Abdelghani Ouchabane 2016-09-05 09:32:00 UTC

I am using:

Kernel: 4.4.9-300.2
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
systemd-219-19.el7_2.12.x86_64

Comment 2 David Scully 2016-09-06 16:07:36 UTC

Reposting from the Mailing List:

I have also run into problems with connectivity with the latest firmware that is resolved by reverting back to 0.92. However, I'm using a custom board that uses Intel i211 NICs instead of the Realtek NIC. As I understand it, this is the same NIC as what will be in the Minnowboard Turbot Quad. 

For the i211 connected to PCIe Port 1 on my board, I typically can trigger this failure when I to do bidirectional TCP/IP iperf tests: 
Board: iperf -c 192.168.1.127 -t 300 -d 
Development PC: iperf -s 

The error message from the Intel NIC driver is: 
[Sep 2 10:00] igb 0000:03:00.0 enp3s0: PCIe link lost, device now detached 

I'm running stock 0.93 firmware with Ubuntu 16.04.1.

Comment 3 Stephen K Jolley 2017-06-13 18:08:50 UTC

We are no longer tracking in Yocto Project Bugzilla MinnowBoard and MinnowBoard-MAX HW and firmware bugs.