From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267737AbUGXMaK (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 08:30:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265031AbUGXMaK (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 08:30:10 -0400 Received: from pop.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:42404 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S267737AbUGXMaE (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jul 2004 08:30:04 -0400 X-Authenticated: #21910825 Message-ID: <41025646.6020108@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:29:58 +0200 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040114 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lars_Hagstr=F6m?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: forcedeth on MSI K8N Neo Platinum References: <40EC7FB1.4020906@update.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <40EC7FB1.4020906@update.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- http://www.hailfinger.org/