From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexander Nyberg Subject: Re: strange 3c59x behaviour under 2.6.11.7 Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 23:35:11 +0200 Message-ID: <1115242511.2562.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: vortex@scyld.com, Bogdan.Costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Jim Faulkner In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org > Some background for the linux-kernel folks: > > http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/vortex/2005-May/002483.html > > http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/vortex/2005-May/002484.html > > On Tue, 3 May 2005, Bogdan Costescu wrote: > > > > Any ideas on what is causing this problem, and how to fix it? > > > > Try booting with acpi=off. > > Try updating BIOS and/or modify power related options in BIOS. > > I've tried disabling ACPI in the kernel, turning on APM support in the > BIOS, and the combination of the two, and unfortunately the problem > persisted. > > However, I found this patch (the one at the very bottom of the page): > http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg78894.html > > And after adapting it to the 2.6.11.7 kernel, everything works again! > I've rebooted the machine several times, and the 3com cards initialized > successfully every time. > > I'm CC'ing linux-kernel in the hopes that this fix can make it into the > mainstream kernel sometime soon. I'm sure my mother would appreciate it > greatly. :) > > Please CC my e-mail address in any replies as I am not subscribed to this > list. [netdev needs to be up on the CC on this too] Yeah I get the same behaviour reliably when doing kexec on a box with the 3c59x, lspci shows: 0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905C-TX Fast Etherlink for PC Management NIC Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR-