Re: External PHY in Linux smc91x driver

2007-12-17 Thread Shaun Jackman
Hello David, (cc'ed to LKML) The patch, `smc91x: Add support for an external PHY' from 2006-07-19, worked for me. It simply set the extphy bit of the smc91x to disable the internal PHY and use the external MII interface. As you can see from the patch, it doesn't support configuring the external

Re: External PHY in Linux smc91x driver

2007-12-17 Thread Shaun Jackman
Hello David, (cc'ed to LKML) The patch, `smc91x: Add support for an external PHY' from 2006-07-19, worked for me. It simply set the extphy bit of the smc91x to disable the internal PHY and use the external MII interface. As you can see from the patch, it doesn't support configuring the external

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-15 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is the keyboard ever set up then? This is all happening before > console_init (since that's when the prints start) and the early printk > won't show anything before it parses the options. For other > architectures, I use to write out to the serial

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-15 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is the keyboard ever set up then? This is all happening before console_init (since that's when the prints start) and the early printk won't show anything before it parses the options. For other architectures, I use to write out to the serial really

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. > >Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need > >to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for earlyprintk=vga to work? > > I think yes, otherwise there

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Thanks for the hint. I tried edd=off but sadly the boot delay > >persists. It looks as though edd was already disabled, as my .config > >contains CONFIG_EDD=m and the edd module is not loaded. If it helps > >troubleshooting I can post my .config

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > At this point there is a nine minute, fifteen second delay. As soon as > > the kernel starts printing messages it goes by quite fast, so I can't > > be certain what it's printing, but the first message according to > > dmesg is... > > Linux version

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/11, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Shaun Jackman wrote: > > I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub > > loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the > > kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/11, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Shaun Jackman wrote: I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both from Debian

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: At this point there is a nine minute, fifteen second delay. As soon as the kernel starts printing messages it goes by quite fast, so I can't be certain what it's printing, but the first message according to dmesg is... Linux version 2.6.11-1-k7

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for the hint. I tried edd=off but sadly the boot delay persists. It looks as though edd was already disabled, as my .config contains CONFIG_EDD=m and the edd module is not loaded. If it helps troubleshooting I can post my .config here.

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for earlyprintk=vga to work? I think yes, otherwise there would not be a

Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-09 Thread Shaun Jackman
I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both from Debian, and 2.6.11 from Knoppix, all of which experience the same delay. The SATA

Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-09 Thread Shaun Jackman
I added a PCI SATA controller to my computer. Immediately after grub loads the kernel there is a consistent ten minute delay before the kernel displays its first message. I tested Linux 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 both from Debian, and 2.6.11 from Knoppix, all of which experience the same delay. The SATA

SATALink Sil3112 and Linux woes

2005-08-08 Thread Shaun Jackman
Hello, I have a Silicon Image SATALink Sil3112 PCI card connected to two 200 GB SATA Seagate drives. I'm running into many problems with this setup. Is this card well supported under Linux? If it's a black sheep, could someone please recommend a PCI SATA card that works well? First off, every

SATALink Sil3112 and Linux woes

2005-08-08 Thread Shaun Jackman
Hello, I have a Silicon Image SATALink Sil3112 PCI card connected to two 200 GB SATA Seagate drives. I'm running into many problems with this setup. Is this card well supported under Linux? If it's a black sheep, could someone please recommend a PCI SATA card that works well? First off, every

lirc and Linux 2.6.11

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
I was using lirc 0.7.0 with Linux 2.6.8.1. Upon upgrading to Linux 2.6.11, I recompiled the lirc 0.7.0 hauppauge (lirc_i2c) modules for the new kernel. This did not work. I then tried compiling the lirc 0.7.1 modules for the new kernel. This didn't work either. The error message lircd gives is...

netdev watchdog

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
Upon booting my system, the boot fails and the following message is displayed repeatedly: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status eb01. diagnostics: net 0cfa media 88c0 dma 003a fifo eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked

Hang when using a Matrox G550 with DVI

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
When I have a DVI display plugged into my Matrox G550 video card the Linux kernel 2.6.11 hangs while booting. This can be worked around by "disabling CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT and/or comment out call to store_edid in arch/i386/boot/video.S" [1], or by unplugging the DVI display before the kernel boots

Hang when using a Matrox G550 with DVI

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
When I have a DVI display plugged into my Matrox G550 video card the Linux kernel 2.6.11 hangs while booting. This can be worked around by disabling CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT and/or comment out call to store_edid in arch/i386/boot/video.S [1], or by unplugging the DVI display before the kernel boots and

netdev watchdog

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
Upon booting my system, the boot fails and the following message is displayed repeatedly: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status eb01. diagnostics: net 0cfa media 88c0 dma 003a fifo eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked

lirc and Linux 2.6.11

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
I was using lirc 0.7.0 with Linux 2.6.8.1. Upon upgrading to Linux 2.6.11, I recompiled the lirc 0.7.0 hauppauge (lirc_i2c) modules for the new kernel. This did not work. I then tried compiling the lirc 0.7.1 modules for the new kernel. This didn't work either. The error message lircd gives is...

Re: Poor responsiveness during disk I/O

2005-01-15 Thread Shaun Jackman
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:53:26 +0200, Jan Knutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 23:57, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > Linux 2.6.8.1 > > A "vmstat 1" output during high load would be nice... Here I'm running updatedb and opening firefox, which takes

Re: Poor responsiveness during disk I/O

2005-01-15 Thread Shaun Jackman
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:53:26 +0200, Jan Knutar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 14 January 2005 23:57, Shaun Jackman wrote: Linux 2.6.8.1 A vmstat 1 output during high load would be nice... Here I'm running updatedb and opening firefox, which takes about 45 seconds to open. It's running