From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261754AbULGIIN (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 03:08:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261764AbULGIIN (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 03:08:13 -0500 Received: from tristate.vision.ee ([194.204.30.144]:35773 "HELO mail.city.ee") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261754AbULGIH7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Dec 2004 03:07:59 -0500 Message-ID: <41B56518.2070108@vision.ee> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:08:56 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?TGVuYXIgTMO1aG11cw==?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (Windows/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: status of via velocity in 2.6.9 References: <41B4F447.2060808@ccs.neu.edu> In-Reply-To: <41B4F447.2060808@ccs.neu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, At least Abit AV8 onboard velocity doesn't work with 2.6.9. With earlier kernels, the machine just locked up after ifconfig up. With 2.6.9, it doesn't lock up, but it doesn't work either (data seems to go to black hole or sth). But there seem to be some success reports too with this kernel. Lenar Johan wrote: > How 'working' are the via velocity drivers in 2.6.9? > > For better or worse, the cheapest gigabit card I could find has the > vt6122 chip, which seems to want the velocity drivers. (*) > > Unfortunately, while they (the driver and card, that is) seem at first > to work fine, auto negotiating a gigabit connection with my hub, the > network stops working after 5 ish minutes (could be function of bytes > tx'ed as well, I guess). restarting the network (appart from a kernel > upgrade, the box is redhat fc2) fixes the problem... for another 5 > minutes. > > Is this known behavior? > > Thanks > > Johan > > (*) The card's box advertizes linux compatibility with RH 7.3 > (2.4.18-3 or later), which makes me wonder whether another driver may > work better. 2.4.18-3 would seem to predate the via-velocity driver. > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/