Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-11 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 03:16 11/12/2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: >On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: >Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > > My card is an Ether Express Pro 100, lcpci says: Intel Corporation 82557 > > > [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 04) > >So it's an i82558 A-step. That's interesting, the patch shouldn't h

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-10 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Ion Badulescu wrote: > This is an i82559 C-step. What kind of switch is it attached to? It's a 3Com FDDI/Ethernet Linkswitch 2200 Rev 2.8 > Also, if you feel like experimenting, edit speedo_interrupt() and change > outw(status & 0xfc00, ioaddr + SCBStatus); > to > outw(status &

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-10 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > The problem here only ever happens at initialisation/first packets. Once the > network interface has been initialised properly it never produces those > messages anymore. Usually it helps to shut the NIC down with ifcon

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-10 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Just to say that the patch (including added 4) fixed the "card reports no > resources" messages for me. - Looking at my logs the messages appeared once > every 10-40 minutes. - Now the box is up for more than 5 hours with the > patch and test12-pre7 and not a sing

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-10 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 20:57 08/12/2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: >On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > > > > + /* disable advertising the flow-control capability */ > > > + sp->advertising &= ~0x0400; > > > + mdio_write(ioaddr, sp->phy[0] & 0x1f, sp->advertising); > > >

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-08 Thread Josh Fryman
> * put cable in * > > eth0: card reports no RX buffers. > eth0: card reports no resources. > eth0: card reports no RX buffers. > eth0: card reports no resources. you know, this might be entirely unrelated, but i had the exact same type of problem with a brand new machine running a not-so-brand n

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-08 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Ion Badulescu wrote: > > Ok. Can you send me the entire dump? Also, it would be helpful if you > could try to determine when exactly it happens (upon insmod, upon ifconfig > up, or upon receiving some packets later). I have the eepro driver compiled into a monolithic kernel. After rebooting a co

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-08 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > > + /* disable advertising the flow-control capability */ > > + sp->advertising &= ~0x0400; > > + mdio_write(ioaddr, sp->phy[0] & 0x1f, sp->advertising); > >

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-08 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Ion Badulescu wrote: > The fact that apparently only the people using 82559 chips are seeing this > seems to confirm my analysis above. > > If you could try the attached patch (and maybe pass it onto the other > people who are experiencing this problem), that would be great. > +

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-08 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > > The sympthomes are that the card triggers Flow Control Pause condition (and > > > interrupt) on the last stages of the initialization or right after. > > > And it happens with flow control being explicitly turned off. > > > High network load consi

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-06 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > > > There is nothing relevant in the errata, unfortunately... > > > > Do you have it? > > I have the manual in the office, so I can look at it again in a couple of > days. I'

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-05 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Ion Badulescu wrote: > > Do you know if only one specific chip revision exhibits this problem? It > would really help track down the problem. If I remember correctly, 82557 > doesn't have flow control at all, and 82558/9 have different > implementations -- one is proprietary (82558) and one is st

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-05 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > There is nothing relevant in the errata, unfortunately... > > Do you have it? I have the manual in the office, so I can look at it again in a couple of days. I've used it to hack on the BSDI driver... > The sympthomes are that the card triggers F

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-04 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:45:24PM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:51:09 +0800, Andrey Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been promised that this issue would be looked up in Intel's errata by > > people who had the access to it, but I haven't got the resul

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-01 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:51:09 +0800, Andrey Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been promised that this issue would be looked up in Intel's errata by > people who had the access to it, but I haven't got the results yet. There is nothing relevant in the errata, unfortunately... > The card

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-01 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Andrey Savochkin wrote: > > > eth0: card reports no RX buffers. > > eth0: card reports no resources. > It's a known issue. > I've been promised that this issue would be looked up in Intel's errata by > people who had the access to it, but I haven't got the results yet. I just figured out someth

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-01 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 07:41:11PM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > I've been using an older EEPro100/B card until now and it's been working without any > problems ever since the transmitter bugs were fixed. The boot output looked like >this: [snip] > Today I've installed a new model with

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-11-30 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Andrey Savochkin wrote: > I've updated eepro100 driver for 2.4 kernel branch. > So far, the most annoying initialization problem (expressing itself in "card > reports no resources" messages) hasn't been fixed. Hi Andrey, I've been using an older EEPro100/B card until now and it's been working w