--- Stephen Hemminger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The sky2 driver clears some bits in the PHY control
> register, that cause
> the PHY interface to get changed. Some of these
> deal with voltage and power
> savings as well. This may explain some of the
> failures on Gigabyte DS-3 motherboard.
>
Someone wrote me with a solution to try and so far
it's working. They suggested I try the driver up on
Marvell's website but to make sure I powered off the
machine completely and when it rebooted to not have
any of the regular kernel drivers for the Marvell
chipset to load. They had found that le
--- Stephen Hemminger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The driver prints some chip version info at startup,
> that might
> be helpful in disambiguating good/bad versions:
>
> dmesg | grep sky2
Here's the output from the working MB:
sky2 :04:00.0: v1.14 addr 0xf800 irq 16
Yukon-EC Ult
--- Stephen Hemminger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The working board has a different version of the
> Marvell chip:
>
> $ grep Marvell working-MB
> 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology
> Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
> (rev 14)
> $ grep Marvell broken-MB
> 04:
--- Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, in this trace, both controllers are on the same
> bus. The broken
> one has 'Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error
> Reporting' the other
> does not have, and the bridge to this bus has two
> more capabilities :
> 'Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
--- Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No Stephen, look again, he says that moving the
> video card into the broken
> system does not change anything.
Correct, I've used three different video cards in the
broken machine. I've used an old PCI vid card, the
PCI-X vid card from the working
Hi all,
I've read where the onboard Marvell lan controller on
some Gigabyte boards don't work. I've got two systems
using the same Gigabyte board, on one the LAN works on
the other it dies like described by others. Here's
the systems:
Working system:
Gigabyte 965P-DS3 rev 3.3 (BIOS F1
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