Re: [E1000-devel] Changing the ethX names

2008-11-12 Thread Kok, Auke
if you have udev installed and running you can just edit: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to rename the devices persistently. No ugly firmware hacks needed. Auke Carsten Aulbert wrote: Hi all, sorry to bother you such a thing, but I'm not getting anywhere right now. I've a

Re: [E1000-devel] (Help) too many interrupts on Intel Pro Network interface.(e1000e)

2008-11-11 Thread Kok, Auke
also, please note that this might actually be perfectly ok! if you are experiencing high traffic, then having 20k interrupts per second might be just fine for your system. lowering the interruptthrottlerate might actually not change the impact on your system at all. But it will increase

Re: [E1000-devel] Bug introduced in e1000 driver - 2.6.26.5 - 2.6.27-rc8

2008-10-01 Thread Kok, Auke
Jon Wikne wrote: Hi, On a system I have, the e1000 driver stopped working in the transition from 2.6.26.5 - 2.6.27-rc8. When I compile the e1000 tree from 2.6.26.5 under 2.6.27-rc8, it works! this is not a bug. you have a device for which support was moved from the e1000 driver to the

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000e: release hw semaphore after successfully writing EEPROM

2008-09-29 Thread Kok, Auke
looks totally valid to me indeed! Reviewed-by: Auke Kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auke Arthur Jones wrote: Since e1000e has been existance in linux-2.6, we've never released the hardware semaphore after a successful write to the SPI EEPROM. I guess we don't write to SPI EEPROM much -- but those

Re: [E1000-devel] questions about Intel e1000 Drivers

2008-09-16 Thread Kok, Auke
Allan, Bruce W wrote: Hi Ken, I'm not familiar with the string PT Quad Port Bypass Server Adapter but I These (development) adapters were never sold for the general market and there is no support available in the e1000/e1000e linux drivers, nor will that likely be ever added. A special

Re: [E1000-devel] questions about Intel e1000 Drivers

2008-09-16 Thread Kok, Auke
driver worked. somewhat. But was far from stable and definately not ready for production environments :) Cheers, Auke Ken -Original Message- From: Kok, Auke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:24 PM To: Ken Lee Cc: Allan, Bruce W; e1000-devel

Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e100: Add missing dma sync for proper operation with non-coherent caches.

2008-08-26 Thread Kok, Auke
David Daney wrote: I am running the e100 driver on a MIPS 4KEc system (32 bit mips with non-coherent DMA). There was a problem where received packets would get 'stuck' for several seconds at a time and then be released all at once. The cause was that if an interrupt were received when no