Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin@thinrope.net>]

Kalin KOZHUHAROV wrote:
> Daniel Drake wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Steve Kieu wrote:
>> 
>>> If run 2.6.13 and up the NIC, it is working. Shuttdown or 
>>> reboot using /sbin/halt (means power completely off and on) 
>>> or /sbin/reboot all other OSs failed to enable the NIC except
>>>  2.6.13.
>>> 
>>> to restore the normal working of the NIC, boot 2.6.13 and do 
>>> a hot power reset. (press the reset button)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Stephen recently posted a patch which looks like it might solve
>>  this issue.
>> 
>> Steve, maybe you could test it out? I have attached it to this 
>> Gentoo bug:
>> 
>> http://bugs.gentoo.org/100258
>> 
>> Stephen, thanks for your hard work!
> 
> 
> I will try this one on a problematic ASUS board than now runs on 
> 2.11.11 with sk98lin-8.18.2.2.patch.
> 
> Applied the patch from #100258 to 2.6.13.1 successfully (some
> lines offset) and recompiled. Will try it tomorrow when I am at
> the machine.

Well, I did test it, but skge didn't even find the hardware :-(
No device was created, no dmesg output on load.
Instead I am running 2.6.13.1 with sk98lin-8.23.1.3.patch
The MB is ASUS P5GDC-V-Deluxe and the the on-board NIC:

# lspci -v  -s 02:00.0
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 
88E8053 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
         Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit 
Ethernet Controller (Asus)
         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
         Memory at cfffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
         I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
         Expansion ROM at cffc0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
         Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
         Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
         Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ 
Queue=0/1 Enable-
         Capabilities: [e0] #10 [0011]


I am not sure it is supposed to be used with the skge driver, but I
thought it will work... Some ASUS boards apparently have problems 
with the VPD being broken, but I am not sure how to check that.

> BTW, is this patch submitted to the Linus or -mm tree already?
??

Kalin.

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