Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

[Kambo Lohan]

I am having the same problems, I have duplicated the hard lockups / ethernet 
hangs on two intel 815EE boards.  It happens when send traffic through the 
onboard eepro100 is high, and sometimes running something like vmstat 1 in 
the background triggers the lockup faster.  When it locks up there is 
nothing in the log, no oops or anything.  Sometimes it just hangs eth0 with 
the (cmd timeout) msgs and an ifconfig down/up fixes it temporarily.

I am using 2.2.18, heres compile info:
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Linux version 2.2.18 (root@flankerbuild) (gcc 
version egcs-2.91.66 19990Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Detected 598065 kHz 
processor.
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 1192.75 BogoMIPS
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Memory: 126976k/129792k available (884k 
kernel code, 412k reserved, 1480Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Dentry hash 
table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 
(order 7, 512k)
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 
5, 128k)
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Intel machine check architecture supported.
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Intel machine check reporting enabled on 
CPU#0.
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: 128K L2 cache (4 way)
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 128K
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 
06
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using 
exception 16 error reporting.Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Checking 'hlt' 
instruction... OK.
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jan  9 08:29:32 axiom1 kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2

I will test the latest 2.2.19pre with it.  Do you need my kernel config, 
it's all generic, i have eepro100 and 3c59x built as modules everything else 
is default (smp is OFF).

I can trigger this lockup repeatedly by doing a shell script on the 815 that 
rsyncs a large file to another machine over and over.  After about 5 minutes 
of high load it either hangs hard or hangs the eth card.

I have a 3com59x in there as well, it and the onboard eepro are both using 
irq 11 - is that normal?  The 3com is in promiscuous mode sniffing a lot of 
traffic as well, during the tests.

-- original text --
Ok, I just build another server, also using an Intel D815EAL. Same exact
setup as the other one. Celeron 600cpu w/ 128mb ram (PC133 btw). both
systems lockup doing ftp transfers. I didn't know for sure about the first
one, so I just opened up an ncftp session and downloaded something large
from the internet. Netscape 6 was what I found (not planning on installing
it btw), didn't get very far then locked up tight. twice in a row. no
errors, nothing, nothing to report either.

So, I built another. i have parts for 2 of them (almost ready for the
garbage) so i put together the second. i can hardly download anything.
can't even get down new rpm or source code for the new kernels. i'm on my
last nerve here and about to throw the motherboards out the window. I don't
understand how you guys make these motherboards work. what am i missing?
i'm so fed up. 3 weeks lost and no servers to show for it. my boss is so
pissed.

do you guys have any input? where else can i go to find out about these
boards?

Thanks,
Rob

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Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

[Andi Kleen]

You could try the Intel driver (e100.c), which is downloadable from their website.
It apparently has some silicon bug workarounds that Donald's driver hasn't. 

Another popular cause of strange lockups are PCI bios problems (interrupt conflicts
etc. -- exchanging slots may help) 

Also please note that such a subject line is not a good motivation to help
you for free.


-Andi
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Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

[Kambo Lohan]

Whoops,
I didnt set the cc address properly, the full thread is on the 
eepro100@scyld.com list.

Karl Pickett

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Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

[Dragan Stancevic]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001, Kambo Lohan <kambo77@hotmail.com> wrote:
; I am having the same problems, I have duplicated the hard lockups / ethernet 
; hangs on two intel 815EE boards.  It happens when send traffic through the 
; onboard eepro100 is high, and sometimes running something like vmstat 1 in 
; the background triggers the lockup faster.  When it locks up there is 
; nothing in the log, no oops or anything.  Sometimes it just hangs eth0 with 
; the (cmd timeout) msgs and an ifconfig down/up fixes it temporarily.
; 


Kambo,

can you run the driver with a high debug flag and log what is going on,
make sure you have alot of space since it talks alot.

The card seems to be locking up with a couple of commands in the register that
are not known to me, my specs don't list them, hopefully the new specs talk
about it. At this time it's not known where the command comes from, I am
working on a patch that will tell a bit more about that...


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it was a hardware problem.

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Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

[Dan B]

Has anyone gotten Intel's (non-GPL) e100 driver working in 2.4.x yet?  What 
about their e100-ANS driver that supports FEC 800mbps?

Dan Browning, Cyclone Computer Systems, 
danb@cyclone.computers.coZZZZZZZZZZZZZZm

At 02:14 PM 1/11/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 09, 2001, Kambo Lohan <kambo77@hotmail.com> wrote:
>; I am having the same problems, I have duplicated the hard lockups / 
>ethernet
>; hangs on two intel 815EE boards.  It happens when send traffic through the
>; onboard eepro100 is high, and sometimes running something like vmstat 1 in
>; the background triggers the lockup faster.  When it locks up there is
>; nothing in the log, no oops or anything.  Sometimes it just hangs eth0 with
>; the (cmd timeout) msgs and an ifconfig down/up fixes it temporarily.
>;
>
>
>Kambo,
>
>can you run the driver with a high debug flag and log what is going on,
>make sure you have alot of space since it talks alot.
>
>The card seems to be locking up with a couple of commands in the register that
>are not known to me, my specs don't list them, hopefully the new specs talk
>about it. At this time it's not known where the command comes from, I am
>working on a patch that will tell a bit more about that...

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Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

[Florin Andrei]

Dan B wrote:
> 
> Has anyone gotten Intel's (non-GPL) e100 driver working in 2.4.x yet?  What
> about their e100-ANS driver that supports FEC 800mbps?

	My system at home has an Intel 815 motherboard (video, sound and network are
included into the motherboard), and works quite well with 2.4.0. I was able to
use its graphics card (obviously, because it's an i815), sound (with ALSA)
and... surprise!... network card!
	You just have to use the eepro100 driver (from the mainstream 2.4.0 kernel),
and the netcard will work (i use the eepro100 driver compiled as a module). I
posted this tip few days ago to the Intel netcards newsgroup.

	Previously, with 2.2 kernels, i had to use Intel's non-GPL e100 driver,
because the eepro100 driver from 2.2 kernels didn't worked with my card.

-- 
Florin Andrei
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Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

[George R. Kasica]

I'm using the following and its been flawless under 2.4x:

eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/driv
ers/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.35 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V.
Savochkin <saw@sa
w.sw.com.sg> and others
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0b.0
eth0: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:02:B3:1C:53:67,
IRQ 11.
  Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
  Board assembly 721383-016, Physical connectors present: RJ45
  Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
  General self-test: passed.
  Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
  Internal registers self-test: passed.
  ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).


>Has anyone gotten Intel's (non-GPL) e100 driver working in 2.4.x yet?  What 
>about their e100-ANS driver that supports FEC 800mbps?

George

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Re: [eepro100] Ok, I'm fed up now

[Dragan Stancevic]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001, Dan B <db@cyclonehq.dnsalias.net> wrote:
; Has anyone gotten Intel's (non-GPL) e100 driver working in 2.4.x yet?  What 
; about their e100-ANS driver that supports FEC 800mbps?

I don't think the intels driver is using pci_dma yet so it's
going to take a while before they port all that stuff over,
but than again that is just a guess, maybe they have stuff
done alredy it's just waiting for a new release.



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