Re: forcedeth and kernel 2.6.5 has "no link"

[Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>]

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John Wong wrote:

>Under kernel 2.6.4, ethtool reports:
>
>Settings for eth0:
>        Link detected: yes
>
>This is with forcedeth 0.23
>
>Under kernel 2.6.5, ethtool reports:
>
>Settings for eth0:
>        Supports Wake-on: g
>        Wake-on: d
>        Link detected: no
>
>This is with forcedeth 0.25
>  
>
Odd. I'm not aware of any changes that might cause that difference. I'll 
check the diff.

>I had submitted the bugzilla id 2283.  2496 is something that I am
>experiencing too.
>  
>
Could you try the attached patch?


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    Manfred

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--- 2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2004-04-10 09:52:45.000000000 +0200
+++ build-2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c	2004-04-13 18:58:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -1263,6 +1263,14 @@
 				dev->name, id1, id2, i);
 		np->phyaddr = i;
 
+		if (id1 == 0x0015 && (id2 &0xfff0) == 0xf440) {
+			printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: open: Found ICS, applying workaround.\n", dev->name);
+        		/* workaround for ICS1893 PHY */
+            		mii_rw(dev, i, 0x0018, 0xD200);
+			set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+			schedule_timeout(HZ);
+		}
+
 		spin_lock_irq(&np->lock);
 		nv_update_linkspeed(dev);
 		spin_unlock_irq(&np->lock);