Re: [PATCH] Gigabit Ethernet support for forcedeth

From: Tim Waugh
Date: Mon Aug 02 2004 - 06:56:03 EST


On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:29:44PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> Could you try modprobe forcedeth;sleep 5;ip link set dev eth0 up.

Link was detected.

> Then
> pull out the network cable and check if the driver noticed that with
> ethtool.

It didn't. It still thought there was a link.

> Plug in back in and check again. With dprintk enabled. Then
> send me the kernel log and the ethtool output.

Done: http://cyberelk.net/tim/tmp/debug.gz

> And add the lspci -vxx -s 00:05.0. Probably I'll make the timer
> dependant on nForce 1-3 and exclude the nForce 3 Gb nics: they don't
> need it.

# lspci -vxx -s 00:05.0
00:05.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce3 Ethernet (rev a5)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80c5
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
Memory at ff6fc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
I/O ports at eff0 [size=8]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
00: de 10 d6 00 07 00 b0 00 a5 00 00 02 00 00 00 00
10: 00 c0 6f ff f1 ef 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 c5 80
30: 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 01 14

Thanks,
Tim.
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