Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:30:52 +0100 | From | James Courtier-Dutton <> | Subject | Re: Asus K8N-VM Motherboard Ethernet Problem |
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James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: >> On Sat, 2006-05-27 23:07:39 -0700, Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com> wrote: >>> Marc Perkel wrote: >> [forcedeth not working correctly] >>> Also - why is it that I can load a 3 year old version of Windows XP on >>> this motherboad and it just work but I load a modern Linux Kernel and it >>> can't find the Ethernet card? >> That is either because Windows XP is totally superior to Linux, or >> because the vendor (NVidia in this case) wrote a Windows driver, but >> they didn't write something for Linux _and_ didn't publish any specs >> for this ethernet controller. So it took some time to reverse >> engineer the Windows driver... >> >> MfG, JBG >> > > I can concur that the forcedeth is unreliable on nvidia based motherboards. > I have a ethernet device that works with forcedeth. > 0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3) > 0000:00:0a.0 0680: 10de:0057 (rev a3) > Subsystem: 147b:1c12 > Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 11 > Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] > I/O ports at fc00 [size=8] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > > It works in that it can actually send and receive packets. > The problems are: > 1) one cannot rmmod the forcedeth module. Even after ifdown etc. > 2) the machine hangs randomly. > Before someone asks, the MB has no serial port, so no stack trace available. > 3) The netconsole fails to function with it. > > I have installed a standard PCI based intel ethernet card, and only use > that. Without the forcedeth loaded, no hangs since. > > So, although I can confirm that there are certainly problems with the > forcedeth driver, without a serial port, I am at a loss at how I might > help diagnose the problem and fix it. > > The only help this email is, is to confirm that if someone is raising > problems with the forcedeth driver, it is most likely to be a truthful > report and if they also have a serial port, they might even be able to > give some good diagnosis output. > > James >
For those interested, I am using the forcedeth driver again in 2.6.16-ck9 kernel, and it has not caused any machine hangs so far (2 days). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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