Re: via-rhine weirdness with via kt8235 Southbridge

From: Christian Guggenberger (christian.guggenberger@physik.uni-regensburg.de)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 19:17:38 EST


> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:49:31 +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
>> This concerns both 2.4 and 2.5 kernels (testet with 2.4.20pre*aa series,
>> and with 2.5.43, 2.5.44 and 2.5.44-ac1):
>>
>> When I enable APIC in the Bios, the via-rhine module will insert
>> properly, but I won't get a link... With APIC disabled, link is ok. Ok,
>> this could be caused by buggy bios, so I'll try again, when a new
>> biosversion is available.
>
> Yeah, it seems there's a problem with IO-APICs. I currently don't have a
> machine with IO-APIC for testing, though, so...
>

A new Biosversion is installed on my mobo now, but that APIC problem is still
there.
Are there some dumps I could post to get some light on that topic?

Maybe some outputs of via-diag, mii-diag, lspci, dmesg ...?
If they could help, what options should I pass to mii-diag and via-diag ?

Christian

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