From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <393579E0.F387D31F@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 16:45:20 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Huber CC: Linux/PowerPC Devel List Subject: Re: Lite-On ethernet controller References: <20000531094520.B652@mclinux.com> <20000531163210.E652@mclinux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Josh Huber wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:10:56PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Later the card seemed to work fine with the updated tulip driver, as you > > probably remember. However, I just got a problem with the updated driver > > (2.3.99-pre3) for the first time: > [snip] > > After updating to the newer tulip driver in the devel kernels, my problems > with my real tulip card went away. I've been having trouble getting two > other cards working however -- the lite-on card that I mentioned before, and > another tulip clone (Kingston). The kingston card was much worse -- it > dropped ~30% of packets under light load, and completely locked up under > medium-heavy load. > > > Note that Josh is using a similar box as me, a CHRP LongTrail. In fact all > > people with LongTrails seem to have problems with Tulip chips. So it might be a > > motherboard problem. > Yeah, which would be unfortunate... :( That would REALLY suck because I was looking forward to throwing my PNIC and PNIC II test cards into this old PMac 7200 which I use for testing drivers on PPC. If it is a general endian bug in the PNIC* codepath, testing there should hopefully expose the problem. If not, I have a feeling Josh and I will be exchanging e-mail... :) Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Liberty is always dangerous, but Building 1024 | it is the safest thing we have. MandrakeSoft, Inc. | -- Harry Emerson Fosdick ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/