Bug 191912
| Summary: | Marvell 88E8055 Gigabit Ethernet adapter does not work | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Rainer Koenig <Rainer.Koenig> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | John W. Linville <linville> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | agospoda, aprowse, djuran, jbaron, jturner, nhorman |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Reopened |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | RHBA-2007-0304 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-05-08 01:29:40 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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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 196464, 198694, 200231 | ||
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Description
Rainer Koenig
2006-05-16 13:20:09 UTC
Actually, 0.15 is a couple of months old. The sky2 driver is currently under very active development. Test kernels w/ patches to update sky2 to version 1.3 are available here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ Please give those a try and post the results here...thanks! Hi John, this morning I tried kernel-smp-2.6.9-36.EL.jwltest.137.i686.rpm and it seems to solve the problem. I did a NETWORK2 test from the RHR2 test suite and it passed. Yesterday afternoon I had some other funny experience with the latest "official" U4 test kernel (2.6.9-36.ELsmp). I tried if the card works with the sk98lin module, but it doesn't. The interesting part was that when I have the sk98lin module loaded and then bring up the network interface with the sky2 module... the network comes up. The price you have to pay for this "workaround" is that the combination of the 2 modules obviously cause a thing that one of my colleauges called "IRQ storm". The visual effect of such a storm is that when you type in a xterm the keystrokes appear with a delay of 1..5 seconds. So this is definitely not a solution. :-) Anyway, your own test kernel works fine and passes the RHR test. Thanks a lot for your contribution Rainer This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this enhancement by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This enhancement is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. committed in stream U5 build 42.19. A test kernel with this patch is available from http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ It looks like the sky2 driver is at version 1.6 in the -54 kernel. Does anyone know if we have any of these cards in RDU that I can try out? Otherwise we will just have to go with partner/customer testing done to date. I am unable to locate one in my stash. Perhaps Andy or Neil has one? sorry, none in my pile. I don't have any either. /me wonders if we should buy some.... At one point I thought Larry was going to get them to send us some laptops for testing/cert. What happened to that? An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0304.html |