From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263616AbTJQWZo (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:25:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261188AbTJQWZo (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:25:44 -0400 Received: from mail.g-housing.de ([62.75.136.201]:7635 "EHLO mail.g-house.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263616AbTJQWZm (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Oct 2003 18:25:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3F906C5F.8010401@g-house.de> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 00:25:35 +0200 From: Christian Kujau User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031010 Debian/1.4-6 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: 3c59x + 2.6.0-test7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org hi, this note will probably not fullfill the needs of a "bug filing", but at least i'd like to say there "is something with the 3c59x driver". since i've seen several other oddities with this driver on this list in the last time, here it comes: i have a 3c905C-TX ("Vortex") in my ppc32 box, working fine under 2.4.22. with 2.6.0-test7 the 3c59x.ko module get loaded, but then the machine just freezes. this is the behaviour during the standard booting process. upon booting with "init=/bin/bash" i am able to do "modprobe 3c59x". the card gets loaded. i can assign an ip adress to the card, ok. but after a couple of minutes or at least upon unloading the driver, the machine just freezes. there is *no* oops shown, nothing in the logs, SYS-REQ is not working, the machine just halts. yes, this is quite odd, reproducible perhaps only here@home, another 3c59x card is working fine with 2.6.0-test7 under ia32 in the next room. if this helps: gcc is 3.3.2, Debian/unstable, binutils 2.14.90.0.6, compiled under 2.4.22. my .config is at http://nerdbynature.de/bits/.config evil@sheep:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : 604r clock : ??? revision : 49.2 (pvr 0009 3102) bogomips : 299.00 machine : PReP Utah (Powerstack II Pro4000) l2 cache : 512KiB, parity disabled SRAM:synchronous, pipelined, no parity evil@sheep:~$ thanks, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #427: network down, IP packets delivered via UPS