problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-03 Thread Maciej Matysiak
hello, does anyone have working 2.4.2x kernel (preferably the latest one) with qlogic isp1020 and dec ethernet card support? i've spent all the saturday and today's morning trying to compile one mysalef, but failed. for archives, here's the story: i decided to change the 2.2.20 kernel installed

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-03 Thread Jaakko Linnosaari
Maciej Matysiak wrote: does anyone have working 2.4.2x kernel (preferably the latest one) with qlogic isp1020 and dec ethernet card support? i've spent all the saturday and today's morning trying to compile one mysalef, but failed. I don't but I'll comment anyway... :) I have PWS433au with "QLogic

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-03 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On the 3rd of May 2004 at 19:11, Jaakko Linnosaari wrote: > I understand that there might be reasons to stick with 2.4 well, i'm stuck with 2.2 which is a pita, i want at least 2.4. in previous mail i forgot to mention that i've tried also 2.6 (2.6.5-4 from deb), but it didn't work. got stuck o

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-03 Thread Craig Small
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 03:24:16PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > does anyone have working 2.4.2x kernel (preferably the latest one) with qlogic > isp1020 and dec ethernet card support? i've spent all the saturday and today's > morning trying to compile one mysalef, but failed. I have to stay on

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jaakko Linnosaari
Maciej Matysiak wrote: thank you, i'll try that. could you please describe your storage setup? i mean, what's connected to your scsi card (internal/external drives). if i remember correctly, the problem which i have appears only when nothing is connected to external scsi interface (i have only inte

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:18:21AM +0300, Jaakko Linnosaari wrote: > Maciej Matysiak wrote: > >thank you, i'll try that. could you please describe your storage setup? > >i mean, what's connected to your scsi card (internal/external drives). > >if i remember correctly, the problem which i have appea

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On the 4th of May 2004 at 15:41, Steve Langasek wrote: > Could you post the output of lspci on your system? # lspci pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30) :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:05:23PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > > thank you, i'll try that. could you please describe your storage setup? > i mean, what's connected to your scsi card (internal/external drives). > if i remember correctly, the problem which i have appears only when nothing > is co

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:31:01PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > > # lspci > pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices > :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip > 21142/43 (rev 30) > :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 > :00:07.1 IDE interface

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 10:36:30AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > I have to stay on the 2.4.18 kernel and no other subsequent kernel will > work for my PC164SX. It may, somehow, have something to do with it or > be a completely unrelated problem. > > The new kernels mess up the PCI bus, so I get s

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Jaakko Linnosaari
Steve Langasek wrote: Could you post the output of lspci on your system? There seems to be a possibility that the problems most people are running into on alphas are caused not by bugs in the drivers for individual controllers, but by bugs in the PCI setup routines; so PCI bridges may cause an othe

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:31:01PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > On the 4th of May 2004 at 15:41, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Could you post the output of lspci on your system? > # lspci > pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices > :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-04 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:27:33AM -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote: > > I'm sitting on Debian kernel package 2.4.18, this works but has some > > other issues. Any idea what has gone wrong? > > Any chance you could provide us with a log of "lspci -v"? Sure! I should also mention that while the 3com ca

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-05 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On the 4th of May 2004 at 09:18, Jaakko Linnosaari wrote: > This is the kernel image I use: > http://testoapina.tky.hut.fi/~jaska/kernel-image-2.6.5_1_alpha.deb . i'm confused. i've installed that kernel and it boots just fine. then i've tried to compile my own 2.6.5 using config file included

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-05 Thread Jaakko Linnosaari
Maciej Matysiak wrote: jaakko, what's the gcc version you've compiled the kernel? i'm on sarge here, with: ii gcc-3.33.3.3-6The GNU C compiler My system is a mixed stable/testing/unstable with 'APT::Default-Release "stable"' set. I used gcc 2.95.4 until 2.6.5 forced me to update;

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-05 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On the 5th of May 2004 at 04:26, Steve Langasek wrote: >> :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip >> 21142/43 (rev 30) >> :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 >> :00:07.1 IDE interface: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 >> :00:07.2 IDE interface: C

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-05 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On the 4th of May 2004 at 17:23, Jay Estabrook wrote: > One observation re: the "stock" (ie non-Feral) Qlogic driver, is > that it typically does VERY poorly when asked to handle a SCSI bus > with both HDDs and CDROMs on it. i'll worry about the performance later :) now i just want to have worki

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-05 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On the 4th of May 2004 at 17:26, Jay Estabrook wrote: >> # lspci >> pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices >> :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip >> 21142/43 (rev 30) >> :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 >> :00:07.1 IDE interface: Cont

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-05 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On the 5th of May 2004 at 09:55, Maciej Matysiak wrote: >> This is the kernel image I use: >> http://testoapina.tky.hut.fi/~jaska/kernel-image-2.6.5_1_alpha.deb . > i'm confused. i've installed that kernel and it boots just fine. then i've > tried to compile my own 2.6.5 using config file include

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-05 Thread james fowler
IF having more lspci -v from MIATA helps, I have a PWS433 that I am running 2.4.26 on right now. I'm more than happy to send info/whatever to help track down bugs. Thanks! James James Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 59959089 AIM: spledos MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Perfection is ach

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-05 Thread Jay Estabrook
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 01:53:10PM +0200, Maciej Matysiak wrote: > On the 4th of May 2004 at 17:23, Jay Estabrook wrote: > > > One observation re: the "stock" (ie non-Feral) Qlogic driver, is > > that it typically does VERY poorly when asked to handle a SCSI bus > > with both HDDs and CDROMs on i

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha

2004-05-06 Thread mel kravitz
I regularly build 2.4.2x kernels on several alpha boxes, 21164 as well as 21264 CPU's, as well as SMP kernels, happy to see USB wireless adapter code working in 2.4.26 and 2.4.27pre1, that is code builds from cvs src from at57c503 project.( see enclosed dmesg). What i do: get linux-24.2x.tar.gz fr

Re: problems with 2.4.2x on alpha.

2004-05-07 Thread Manuel Borges Alves
Hi, I have 2.4.26 running on a 433au and it works. I compiled the kernel debian ways and its working very well. I will send you in attach my kernel configuration that you can you use as a start point. I hope it works. # # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit # CONFIG_ALPHA=y #