Re: tg3 driver fails with on-board BCM95789 NICS (GigaByte GA-7VCSV)

2006-10-25 Thread Richard Bollinger
On 10/25/06, Michael Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This confirms that it's some kind of interrupt problem as David had suggested, at least on eth2. You can try booting with "noapic" to see if it works if you haven't got the patch from Adrian Bunk yet. No joy. Here's the dmesg after boot w/

Re: tg3 driver fails with on-board BCM95789 NICS (GigaByte GA-7VCSV)

2006-10-25 Thread Michael Chan
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 09:02 -0400, Richard Bollinger wrote: > # ethtool -t eth2 > The test result is FAIL > The test extra info: > nvram test (online) 0 > link test (online) 1 > register test (offline) 0 > memory test(offline) 0 > loopback test (off

Re: tg3 driver fails with on-board BCM95789 NICS (GigaByte GA-7VCSV)

2006-10-25 Thread Richard Bollinger
On 10/25/06, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's an interrupt routing problem for sure, Adrian Bunk posted a potential fix to this poster an hour or so ago. I'm running with arch=i386 and the only related postings I see are for x86_64 :-(. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: tg3 driver fails with on-board BCM95789 NICS (GigaByte GA-7VCSV)

2006-10-25 Thread Richard Bollinger
On 10/25/06, Michael Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Can you cat /proc/interrupts a few times to see if the interrupt counts on eth1 and eth2 are increasing? # grep eth /proc/interrupts 9: 0 0 0 0IO-APIC-edge eth2 16: 177724 0 371238

Re: tg3 driver fails with on-board BCM95789 NICS (GigaByte GA-7VCSV)

2006-10-24 Thread David Miller
From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:31:56 -0700 > Can you cat /proc/interrupts a few times to see if the interrupt > counts on eth1 and eth2 are increasing? > > You can also run ethtool -t [eth1 | eth2] to run a basic selftest > on the 2 devices. Be sure to ifconfi

Re: tg3 driver fails with on-board BCM95789 NICS (GigaByte GA-7VCSV)

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Chan
Richard Bollinger wrote: > GigaByte GA-7VCSV-RH motherboard w/two dual core Xeon's, 4gb RAM, > Intel 5000v Chipset, dual Broadcom 5789 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers, > connected to Dell GigE switch. > > Both interfaces work fine with vendor's drivers on Windows 2003, but > using Linux 2.6.18.1 tg3

tg3 driver fails with on-board BCM95789 NICS (GigaByte GA-7VCSV)

2006-10-24 Thread Richard Bollinger
GigaByte GA-7VCSV-RH motherboard w/two dual core Xeon's, 4gb RAM, Intel 5000v Chipset, dual Broadcom 5789 Gigabit Ethernet Controllers, connected to Dell GigE switch. Both interfaces work fine with vendor's drivers on Windows 2003, but using Linux 2.6.18.1 tg3 or vendor's Linux driver, the first