netgear ga621 / ns83820

netgear ga621 / ns83820

[Rob Myers]

hello

im having trouble with a netgear ga621, which is a fiber gigabit card
that uses the ns83820 chipset [1].  currently i am using kernel
2.4.9+XFS and the netgear provided driver.  i would like to switch to
2.4.16, but the netgear driver does not compile.  i presume the problems
with that driver are due to the mm changes in 2.4.10.[2]  while the
ns83820 driver seems to load properly the card does not seem to be able
to communicate with the switch [3].  tcpdump does not show any traffic
being recieved by the card. 

am i wrong in thinking that the ns83820 driver in 2.4.16 should support
this card?

has anyone else had any success making this card work with the netgear
driver since 2.4.10?

thanks and any help/education appreciated

rob.

[1] output of lspci:
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation: Unknown
device 0022
        Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 621a
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
        Latency: 32, cache line size 08
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
        Region 0: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
        Region 1: Memory at feb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at fe800000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

[2] netgear driver compilation errors:
kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__SMP__ -DMODULE -DCLONE -D__NO_VERSION__ -D_DUMP
-DSINGLE_PACKET -D_GA621_ -DINTR_HOLDOFF -DMEMMAPPED_IO -D_DBG
-DPHY_INTR -DFAILURE_MESSAGES -DSTATISTICS -DASSERTION -DCHECKSUM
-DERRDEBUG -O -Wall -I/usr/src/linux/include -g -w  sp.c
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `get_pgd_fast':
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/highmem.h:5,
                 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/skbuff.h:27,
                 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/netdevice.h:146,
                 from nsmtypes.h:22,
                 from sp.c:18:
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: (Each undeclared identifier is
reported only once
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: for each function it appears
in.)
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `free_pgd_fast':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:79: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `pte_alloc_one_fast':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:111: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `pte_free_fast':
/usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:121: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
undeclared (first use in this function)

[3]ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
eth%d: enabling 64 bit PCI.
eth1: ns83820.c v0.13: DP83820 00:40:f4:29:e9:ef pciaddr=0xfeb00000
irq=21 rev 0x103
eth1: link now 1000(?) mbps, full duplex and up.

Re: netgear ga621 / ns83820

[Jason Holmes]

Sure, I have it up using the netgear driver version 1.02 on 2.4.16.  I
didn't have any problems with compiling the driver against 2.4.16 with
the same options that you list.  Previous to this it was working fine on
2.4.11-pre6.  The only obvious difference I can see is that you are
using modversions and I am not.

--
Jason Holmes

Rob Myers wrote:
> 
> hello
> 
> im having trouble with a netgear ga621, which is a fiber gigabit card
> that uses the ns83820 chipset [1].  currently i am using kernel
> 2.4.9+XFS and the netgear provided driver.  i would like to switch to
> 2.4.16, but the netgear driver does not compile.  i presume the problems
> with that driver are due to the mm changes in 2.4.10.[2]  while the
> ns83820 driver seems to load properly the card does not seem to be able
> to communicate with the switch [3].  tcpdump does not show any traffic
> being recieved by the card.
> 
> am i wrong in thinking that the ns83820 driver in 2.4.16 should support
> this card?
> 
> has anyone else had any success making this card work with the netgear
> driver since 2.4.10?
> 
> thanks and any help/education appreciated
> 
> rob.
> 
> [1] output of lspci:
> 01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation: Unknown
> device 0022
>         Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 621a
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32, cache line size 08
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
>         Region 0: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
>         Region 1: Memory at feb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=4K]
>         Expansion ROM at fe800000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
>                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> [2] netgear driver compilation errors:
> kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__SMP__ -DMODULE -DCLONE -D__NO_VERSION__ -D_DUMP
> -DSINGLE_PACKET -D_GA621_ -DINTR_HOLDOFF -DMEMMAPPED_IO -D_DBG
> -DPHY_INTR -DFAILURE_MESSAGES -DSTATISTICS -DASSERTION -DCHECKSUM
> -DERRDEBUG -O -Wall -I/usr/src/linux/include -g -w  sp.c
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `get_pgd_fast':
> In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/highmem.h:5,
>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/skbuff.h:27,
>                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/netdevice.h:146,
>                  from nsmtypes.h:22,
>                  from sp.c:18:
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
> undeclared (first use in this function)
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: (Each undeclared identifier is
> reported only once
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: for each function it appears
> in.)
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `free_pgd_fast':
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:79: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
> undeclared (first use in this function)
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `pte_alloc_one_fast':
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:111: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
> undeclared (first use in this function)
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `pte_free_fast':
> /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:121: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
> undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> [3]ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
> eth%d: enabling 64 bit PCI.
> eth1: ns83820.c v0.13: DP83820 00:40:f4:29:e9:ef pciaddr=0xfeb00000
> irq=21 rev 0x103
> eth1: link now 1000(?) mbps, full duplex and up.
> 
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Re: netgear ga621 / ns83820

[Rob Myers]

jason-

thanks for your speedy and helpful response.  the card is now working
with 2.4.16-xfs and the netgear driver.  to be honest i dont know why, i
simply blew away /usr/src/linux and started over.

thanks again

rob.

On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 11:19, Jason Holmes wrote:
> Sure, I have it up using the netgear driver version 1.02 on 2.4.16.  I
> didn't have any problems with compiling the driver against 2.4.16 with
> the same options that you list.  Previous to this it was working fine on
> 2.4.11-pre6.  The only obvious difference I can see is that you are
> using modversions and I am not.
> 
> --
> Jason Holmes
> 
> Rob Myers wrote:
> > 
> > hello
> > 
> > im having trouble with a netgear ga621, which is a fiber gigabit card
> > that uses the ns83820 chipset [1].  currently i am using kernel
> > 2.4.9+XFS and the netgear provided driver.  i would like to switch to
> > 2.4.16, but the netgear driver does not compile.  i presume the problems
> > with that driver are due to the mm changes in 2.4.10.[2]  while the
> > ns83820 driver seems to load properly the card does not seem to be able
> > to communicate with the switch [3].  tcpdump does not show any traffic
> > being recieved by the card.
> > 
> > am i wrong in thinking that the ns83820 driver in 2.4.16 should support
> > this card?
> > 
> > has anyone else had any success making this card work with the netgear
> > driver since 2.4.10?
> > 
> > thanks and any help/education appreciated
> > 
> > rob.
> > 
> > [1] output of lspci:
> > 01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation: Unknown
> > device 0022
> >         Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 621a
> >         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
> > ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
> >         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> >         Latency: 32, cache line size 08
> >         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
> >         Region 0: I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
> >         Region 1: Memory at feb00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> > [size=4K]
> >         Expansion ROM at fe800000 [disabled] [size=64K]
> >         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
> >                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
> > PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
> >                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> > 
> > [2] netgear driver compilation errors:
> > kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -D__SMP__ -DMODULE -DCLONE -D__NO_VERSION__ -D_DUMP
> > -DSINGLE_PACKET -D_GA621_ -DINTR_HOLDOFF -DMEMMAPPED_IO -D_DBG
> > -DPHY_INTR -DFAILURE_MESSAGES -DSTATISTICS -DASSERTION -DCHECKSUM
> > -DERRDEBUG -O -Wall -I/usr/src/linux/include -g -w  sp.c
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `get_pgd_fast':
> > In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/highmem.h:5,
> >                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/skbuff.h:27,
> >                  from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/netdevice.h:146,
> >                  from nsmtypes.h:22,
> >                  from sp.c:18:
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
> > undeclared (first use in this function)
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: (Each undeclared identifier is
> > reported only once
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:68: for each function it appears
> > in.)
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `free_pgd_fast':
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:79: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
> > undeclared (first use in this function)
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `pte_alloc_one_fast':
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:111: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
> > undeclared (first use in this function)
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function `pte_free_fast':
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/pgalloc.h:121: `cpu_data_Rsmp_d3b73c3c'
> > undeclared (first use in this function)
> > 
> > [3]ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
> > eth%d: enabling 64 bit PCI.
> > eth1: ns83820.c v0.13: DP83820 00:40:f4:29:e9:ef pciaddr=0xfeb00000
> > irq=21 rev 0x103
> > eth1: link now 1000(?) mbps, full duplex and up.
> > 
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Re: netgear ga621 / ns83820

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:49:25AM -0500, Rob Myers wrote:
> am i wrong in thinking that the ns83820 driver in 2.4.16 should support
> this card?
> 
> has anyone else had any success making this card work with the netgear
> driver since 2.4.10?

No, fibre is not supported as I've not encountered any test hardware yet.  
It shouldn't be much work to get it going, though.

		-ben