From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261222AbVFQWgk (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:36:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261258AbVFQWgk (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:36:40 -0400 Received: from ns1.g-housing.de ([62.75.136.201]:44248 "EHLO mail.g-house.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261222AbVFQWgb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 18:36:31 -0400 Message-ID: <42B35069.9010202@g-house.de> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:36:25 +0200 From: Christian Kujau User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050404) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List CC: Manfred Spraul Subject: Re: forcedeth as a module only? References: <200506171804.j5HI4qoh027680@dbl.q-ag.de> <42B31749.90208@g-house.de> <42B336FC.9000400@colorfullife.com> <42B34D12.70008@g-house.de> In-Reply-To: <42B34D12.70008@g-house.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christian Kujau schrieb: > Manfred Spraul schrieb: >> >>Could you try the attached patch? It polls for link changes instead of >>relying on the irq. Additionally, I have enabled some debug output. oh jolly, i think it worked! eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01462:0250 bound to 0000:00:05.0 netconsole: device eth0 not up yet, forcing it eth0: no link detected by phy - falling back to 10HD. eth0: no link during initialization. eth0: nv_update_linkspeed: PHY advertises 0x0de1, lpa 0x41e1. eth0: changing link setting from 66536/0 to 65636/1. eth0: link up. netconsole: network logging started [...] eth0: nv_update_linkspeed: PHY advertises 0x0de1, lpa 0x41e1. ... the last line gets repeated a couple of times, that must be the printk you enabled. thank you! Christian. (it's always stunning how a bugreport with that sparse details can lead to a working kernel patch. cool.) -- BOFH excuse #303: fractal radiation jamming the backbone