From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Mark Jaffe , Subject: Re: MACE networking (NOT!) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:09:15 +0100 Message-Id: <20011126080915.18485@smtp.wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >Hi, listas! I am engaged in a crusade to get a PowerMac 8500 with dual-604e >card online running YellowDog 2.0. I have the 2.4.10-B0a SMP kernel >installed, and am continually thwarted getting it into production due to >faulty networking. > >The built-in networking refuses to work properly under Linux. I have no >problems with MacOS, it operates with either a static IP (at the Co-Lo) or >under DHCP (from an AirPort base station in the home office.) But in Linux, >DHCP gets an IP but will not make any connection, and with the static IP at >the Co-Lo it will perform for a few hours then become unreachable. Has this >issue ever been seen? Is there any way to diagnose what is going on and >resolve this problem? > >Mark There are 2 things you can do: 1- Try with one CPU. The mace driver isn't really SMP safe (I can fix that). Tell me if it helps. 2- Tell me the mace chip version (printed by the driver during boot) and try my latest rsync tree as a "workaround" for some broken revs was found in Darwin and I ported it to the linux driver. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/