forcedeth on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

forcedeth on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

[Lars Hagström]

Hi linux-kernel and Carl-Daniel,

I have just put together a system with a MSI K8N Neo Platinum 
motherboard, and I've been having trouble getting the network up and 
running. The chipset is the NVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb.

I'm using gentoo, and have compiled kernel 2.6.7 (gentoo-dev-sources, if 
you're familiar with gentoo) with the forcedeth-bk4 and 
forcedeth_gigabig_try19 patches. I have compiled the forcedeth driver as 
a module (It is the 10/100 forcedeth driver that is patched to handle 
1000, right?).
When I try to start up the network I get the following messages in my 
syslog:
   eth0: phy init failed to autoneg
   eth0: no link during initialization
(I had the NIC connected to a switch at the time, in case that is what 
is meant by the "no link" bit)
Is there something simple that I missed, like module parameters, or is 
this a more complicated issue?

Tonight I will try to enable debugging in the code, to see if I can get 
some more information for you. I would be more than willing to help you 
out with any testing you need.

Is there anything else I can do to help?
Lars

Re: forcedeth on MSI K8N Neo Platinum

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Hi Lars,

Lars Hagström schrieb:
> Hi linux-kernel and Carl-Daniel,
> 
> I have just put together a system with a MSI K8N Neo Platinum
> motherboard, and I've been having trouble getting the network up and
> running. The chipset is the NVIDIA nForce 3 250Gb.
> 
> I'm using gentoo, and have compiled kernel 2.6.7 (gentoo-dev-sources, if
> you're familiar with gentoo) with the forcedeth-bk4 and
> forcedeth_gigabig_try19 patches. I have compiled the forcedeth driver as
> a module (It is the 10/100 forcedeth driver that is patched to handle
> 1000, right?).
> When I try to start up the network I get the following messages in my
> syslog:
>   eth0: phy init failed to autoneg
>   eth0: no link during initialization
> (I had the NIC connected to a switch at the time, in case that is what
> is meant by the "no link" bit)
> Is there something simple that I missed, like module parameters, or is
> this a more complicated issue?
> 
> Tonight I will try to enable debugging in the code, to see if I can get
> some more information for you. I would be more than willing to help you
> out with any testing you need.

Could you please try Linux 2.6.8-rc2 without any driver patch? It has the
latest version of forcedeth and I am very interested in any bug reports/
side effects of the update.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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