From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265840AbTL3QsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:48:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265843AbTL3QsR (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:48:17 -0500 Received: from ext1.srdnet.com ([63.170.161.100]:27589 "EHLO lnxext1.srdnet.extra") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265840AbTL3QsO (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:48:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3FF1AC4D.9040002@macykids.net> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:48:13 -0800 From: Brian Macy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031107 Debian/1.5-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.0 and Starfire NIC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: Scanned by F-Prot Antivirus (http://www.f-prot.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When switching to 2.6.0 my Starfire NIC fails to function with an entertaining message: Dec 23 16:36:45 job kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 0x02018101. Dec 23 16:36:45 job kernel: eth0: Something Wicked happened! 0x02010001. I don't know if this is related but in 2.4 I get PCI bus congestion for the starfire adapter: eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 80 bytes eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 96 bytes eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 112 bytes eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 128 bytes eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 144 bytes eth0: PCI bus congestion, increasing Tx FIFO threshold to 160 bytes Brian Macy