Re: [RFT] sky2: yukon-ec-u phy power problems

--- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The sky2 driver clears some bits in the PHY control > register, that cause > the PHY interface to get changed. Some of these > deal with voltage and power > savings as well. This may explain some of the > failures on Gigabyte DS-3 motherboard. >

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

Someone wrote me with a solution to try and so far it's working. They suggested I try the driver up on Marvell's website but to make sure I powered off the machine completely and when it rebooted to not have any of the regular kernel drivers for the Marvell chipset to load. They had found that le

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

--- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The driver prints some chip version info at startup, > that might > be helpful in disambiguating good/bad versions: > > dmesg | grep sky2 Here's the output from the working MB: sky2 :04:00.0: v1.14 addr 0xf800 irq 16 Yukon-EC Ult

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

--- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The working board has a different version of the > Marvell chip: > > $ grep Marvell working-MB > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology > Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller > (rev 14) > $ grep Marvell broken-MB > 04:

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

--- Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, in this trace, both controllers are on the same > bus. The broken > one has 'Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error > Reporting' the other > does not have, and the bridge to this bus has two > more capabilities : > 'Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

--- Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No Stephen, look again, he says that moving the > video card into the broken > system does not change anything. Correct, I've used three different video cards in the broken machine. I've used an old PCI vid card, the PCI-X vid card from the working

Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

Hi all, I've read where the onboard Marvell lan controller on some Gigabyte boards don't work. I've got two systems using the same Gigabyte board, on one the LAN works on the other it dies like described by others. Here's the systems: Working system: Gigabyte 965P-DS3 rev 3.3 (BIOS F1