From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262450AbUBXUj4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:39:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262446AbUBXUiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:38:10 -0500 Received: from s2.ukfsn.org ([217.158.120.143]:62938 "EHLO mail.ukfsn.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262453AbUBXUg4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:36:56 -0500 From: "Nick Warne" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:36:53 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.6.3 RT8139too NIC problems Message-ID: <403BB5E5.17054.156978FE@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Funnily enough, I looked at this at work today and decided to check > against 8139too.c from 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 trees. There was a lot of > changes, but it appeared only to that file (i.e. nothing referencing > it) - so I have just built 2.6.3 with the 8139too.c source from 2.6.2 > just to make sure it isn't code elsewhere (i.e. pci stuff?) that is > causing it. > > So far it is running perfectly. I will wait a while to test, and if > it doesn't show any problems, we can presume it is the changes that > caused this problem for me on my system. > > Enquiries to the HantsLUG seem to be that no-one else gets this > problem. This has solved the problem for me. Please can anyone tell me what details are required to provide a bug report on this strange one off issue, as I wouldn't know where to start. To recap: rtl8139too cards worked on all kernels up until 2.6.3 (like 3 years). The timeout issues started with 2.6.3 (using make oldconfig)... new settings applied. Tried lilo 'append="noapic" -> problem still persisted. After reading I changed: 2.6.2 source-> 8139too.c to replace new 2.6.3 source-> 8139too.c -> rebuilt with same .config. No timeouts - all hunky dory. Thanks, Nick [root@Linux233 log]# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C585VP [Apollo VP1/VPX] (rev 23) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [Apollo VP] (rev 27) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 02) 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10) 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10) -- "When you're chewing on life's gristle, Don't grumble, Give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best."