From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750749AbVHaJ4N (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:56:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750731AbVHaJ4N (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:56:13 -0400 Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.47]:9824 "EHLO mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750727AbVHaJ4M (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:56:12 -0400 Message-ID: <43157EB8.8040108@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:56:08 +0100 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050820) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Steve Kieu , Jesse Brandeburg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems References: <20050830133918.42444cae@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <20050830205027.59306.qmail@web53609.mail.yahoo.com> <20050830140516.316e9695@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <20050830140516.316e9695@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> 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 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > You have a version of the Marvell Yukon that was affected > by a fix in 2.6.13. > skge addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 19 chip Yukon-Lite rev 9 > > Both the skge and sk98lin driver were fixed to check for this. > Without the fix, the chip will be in the wrong power mode. > > The version of sk98lin driver from SysKonnect already had the > fix, so if your distro used that one, it would have the reset > the power mode as needed. So, am I right in saying we can't do anything in skge to work around this to allow those older buggy drivers to work on the next reboot? More reports are cropping up, e.g.: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-375828.html Given that it seems to be affecting the Windows drivers too, it would be great if something could be done. Thanks, Daniel