From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Hubbard Subject: Re: Broadcom 4400 driver bm44 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:49:55 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: References: <20040708133853.GA20254@ee.oulu.fi> <20040708204346.GA28693@ee.oulu.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Pekka Pietikainen In-Reply-To: <20040708204346.GA28693@ee.oulu.fi> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:43:46 +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote: > Ok, after some digging around ALLMULTI breaking is not a bug, the > vendor-provided driver seems to break in similar ways, at least on 2.6, > so that's a feature unless they fix it in theirs so I can copy the fix :-) > > I put a lots'o'debugging + some bit-flipping reordering to look > more like bcm4400 version at http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~pp/b44-test.tgz. > Probably won't fix the problem, but it's worth a shot I suppose. > > Should compile with > > make -C /lib/modules//build modules SUBDIRS=$PWD > > As a workaround I suppose ifconfig eth1 promisc might do the trick too. > Hello, Just to let you know, I've not forgotten about this problem. I've got another Dell laptop that I can reproduce it on. I'm going to try to get the stock 2.6.7 kernel on it and try it out. Hopefully I can get you some more information by the end of the week. James -- James Hubbard http://www.mcs.uvawise.edu/~jhubbard