Bug 13238
| Summary: | eepro driver broken | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Hans de Goede <hdegoede> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | alan, ewt |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | Florence Gold | ||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-12-16 03:18:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Hans de Goede
2000-06-29 21:22:24 UTC
Ehm make that eepro network card, duh. This NIC has worked flawlessly for me as my main nic since the 2.0 kernel days, this is the first time it breaks for me. The only problem it has is that its bnc connecter has been kicked against once, so sometimes (say once a month) it doesn't make electrical contact and you have to remove and insert the cabel again. Due to this it also has slightly more frame errors then you would normally expect. I guess that this is what bites with the new kernel, something probably busted the error handling. This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Beta-5 Hint: This is a known generic 2.2.16 kernel issue, get Alan to send you just the 2.2.17 patches for this, or maybe some more since 2.2.17 is supposed to be overall better then 2.2.16. Alan, can you help here? This defect has been re-classified as MUST-FIX for Winston Gold-release Alan, should I suck the eepro.c changes from 2.2.17pre14 into our current kernel? As I understand from acme - yes Aha! Those changes have been there since July 4 under the guise of linux-2.2.16-sparc-eepro.patch So this should be fixed in Pinstripe. I'm therefore marking this closed; reopen it if Pinstripe does not fix this bug. Just tried it with RC1, still no go. Are you sure this patches aren't surrounded by if($arch == sparc) in the spec file? p.s. How about going back to eepro from the kernel with 6.2, that had some bugs too (like hanging the machine if you insmod it without an io parameter and your card is not at the default adres) but atleast it worked. Alan I can miss this card, I usually just use it to torture kernels since it is such a "great" card. so if you want it to test the eepro driver, send me a private mail with your address and stuff. Is this failing in the install or after the install? Yes, the patch is applied on all arch's in our spec file. Also, while part of the patch is ifdef __sparc__, it is the same in our sparc-eepro patch and in Alan's patch. Erm, I the sparc-eepro patch is against the eepro100 driver. I'll go look again at 2.2.17-pre<latest>... OK, 2.2.16-21.3 and later will include this fix to the driver. Sorry for the confusion! Verified, works fine now. The eepro100 driver in 2.2.16-22 does not work on an 82559 based card here; it spews card reports no resources/no RX buffers about once per second. OK, Ben, send me a patch! :-) Try the e100 driver and see if it works; that's useful info. This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Florence Gold release Ben, this bug report was about the eepro, not eepro100. Since it was fixed for eepro, I'm closing this. If eepro100 is still broken with that card with the 2.4 kernel, please open a new bug report against that kernel or simply fix it... :-) Eepro is broken in 2.4.0. It might be fixed in -ac now but Im not sure The eepro100 driver is working fine on my test machine with the 2.4.2-x kernels. Can we consider this issue resolved? bfox: no, this is not about eepro100! It's about the 10mbit eepro driver. Tihs bug was about an eepro10 (isa) but I'm not sure anymore what it is about right now, I guess it can be closed when both the eepro10 (isa) and the eepro100 (pci) work. |