Re: via-rhine apparently broken in 2.4.23-pre4

From: Nuno Monteiro (nuno_at_paradigma.co.pt)
Date: 09/19/03

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    Date:	Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:47:30 +0100
To: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org>

    On 2003.09.19 01:58, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
    > Unverified (due to lack of hardware) report from a user:
    >
    > Updating from 2.4.22 to 2.4.23-pre4 breaks networking with an onboard
    > VIA Rhine II chip.
    >
    > It seems to transfer about 2 kB of data, then stall forever.
    >

    Hi,

    I can't confirm that, it's working perfectly here.

    root:~# lspci -v -s 00:12.0
    00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
    (rev 74)
            Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a1
            Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 23
            I/O ports at b400 [size=256]
            Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
            Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

    root:~# uname -a
    Linux hobbes 2.4.23-pre4 #1 Fri Sep 19 12:43:29 WEST 2003 i686 unknown
    unknown GNU/Linux

    root:~# ifconfig|grep -A7 eth0
    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0C:6E:19:06:A9
              inet addr:192.168.0.17 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
              RX packets:74532 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:73461 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
              RX bytes:15080003 (14.3 Mb) TX bytes:7089544 (6.7 Mb)
              Interrupt:23 Base address:0x6000

    Relevant dmesg:

    via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.19 July-12-2003 Written by Donald Becker
      http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
    eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xe5000000, 00:0c:6e:19:06:a9, IRQ 23.
    eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 01e1 Link
    41e1.

    It's an Asus A7V8X board connected to a nortel baystack 350 switch, and
    the kernel is built with ACPI, local APIC and IO-APIC (which are known
    for breaking stuff on occasion, although have always worked flawlessly
    here) and highmem (2Gb installed). See if your user can try booting with
    "pci=noapic" or "acpi=off" or "noapic", it should probably help.

    Now, booting back to 2.6.0-test5 ;)

    Cheers,

                    Nuno

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