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 10:32:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20090514210912.GA4292@cynthia.pants.nu> 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-out7.libero.it ([212.52.84.107]:40521 "EHLO cp-out7.libero.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756234AbZEOIcw (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 May 2009 04:32:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090514210912.GA4292@cynthia.pants.nu> Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Brad Boyer Cc: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Hi Brad, On Thursday, May 14, 2009, at 11:09 PM, Brad Boyer wrote: >> 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 >> 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. maybe I did not express myself clearly: in 2.6.29 the card doesn't work and I typed the error message manually, I then rebooted into 2.6.26, where the card still worked, and pasted its dmesg. Riccardo