Re: vmlinuz-2.6.29-1-11May on IIfx

[Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>]

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 07:35:03PM +0200, Riccardo wrote:
> But any activity on the ethernet (remlote login or just a Ping) gives 
> me:
> 
> trigger_send() called  with the transmitter busy
> 
> and after a bit
> 
> eth0: mismatched read page pointers 45 vs  c.
> 
> booting into 2.6.26 I see the driver used is the mac8390. From dmesg of 
> 2.6.26
> 
> [42949395.010000] mac8390.c: v0.4 2001-05-15 David Huggins-Daines 
> <dhd@debian.org> and others
> [42949395.030000] eth0: Memory length resource for slot A not found, 
> probing
> [42949395.040000] eth0: EtherNet card in slot A (type apple)
> [42949395.050000] MAC 00:80:ad:13:7c:d0 IRQ 57, 32 KB shared memory at 
> 0xfaad0000,  32-bit access.

Did this ethernet card work in an older kernel? The card type detection
in mac8390.c is partially based on guesses and just trying different
cards, as I remember. It's possible that it's detecting the wrong type,
particularly since it isn't finding all the NuBus ROM resources it is
expecting to be present on this card type. I suspect that it's not
accessing the card correctly. Both the error messages are that the
card isn't in a sane state based on what the driver tried to do.

Incidentally, "apple" is the default type for any card the driver
thinks it can use but can't identify with 100% certainty.

	Brad Boyer
	flar@allandria.com