From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Riccardo Subject: Re: vmlinuz-2.6.29-1-11May on IIfx Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:26:19 +0200 Message-ID: <7284F359-4132-11DE-9D14-00050249ADE1@kaffe.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cp-out12.libero.it ([212.52.84.112]:46803 "EHLO cp-out12.libero.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757268AbZEOJ0b (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 05:26:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Schmitz Cc: Brad Boyer , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Hi, >> 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. > > The 'mismatched read page pointers' I've seen on the EtherNEC 8390 > based card > as well, it seems to indicate that the receive buffer overruns. I'm > using a > timer interrupt there, so that is expected to happen. > > Might 'trigger send called with tx busy' also indicate a failure to > receive the > txdone interrupt? Maybe you're not getting any interrupts from the > card? What > does /proc/interrupts register regarding the 8390 driver? > under linux, 2.6.29 I get: mac 57: 74 8390 Ethernet I attempt to ping a host, which fails, then it says: mac 57: 86 8390 Ethernet Riccardo