Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Kevin E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-20 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Kevin E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Kevin E
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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Eric Preston
On 19-Aug-07, at 2:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: The driver prints some chip version info at startup, that might be helpful in disambiguating good/bad versions: dmesg | grep sky2 sky2 :03:00.0: v1.16 addr 0xfa00 irq 16 Yukon-EC Ultra (0xb4) rev 2 sky2 eth0: addr

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Eric Preston
> 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 > 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Kevin E
--- 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Stephen Hemminger
The driver prints some chip version info at startup, that might be helpful in disambiguating good/bad versions: dmesg | grep sky2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Kevin E
--- 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 >

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Kevin E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 06:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Kevin E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Kevin E
--- 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 04:00.0

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Stephen Hemminger
The driver prints some chip version info at startup, that might be helpful in disambiguating good/bad versions: dmesg | grep sky2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Kevin E
--- 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 Ultra

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Eric Preston
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 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Eric Preston
On 19-Aug-07, at 2:34 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: The driver prints some chip version info at startup, that might be helpful in disambiguating good/bad versions: dmesg | grep sky2 sky2 :03:00.0: v1.16 addr 0xfa00 irq 16 Yukon-EC Ultra (0xb4) rev 2 sky2 eth0: addr

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-19 Thread Kevin E
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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-18 Thread Kevin E
--- 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 04:45:26AM -0700, Kevin E wrote: > > --- 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-18 Thread Kevin E
--- 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-18 Thread Kevin E
--- 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 04:45:26AM -0700, Kevin E wrote: --- 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-18 Thread Kevin E
--- 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' and

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:03:41PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:42:13 -0700 (PDT) > Kevin E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've read where the onboard Marvell lan controller on > > some Gigabyte boards don't work. I've got two systems > > using

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-17 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Kevin E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-17 Thread Kevin E
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

Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-17 Thread Kevin E
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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-17 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Kevin E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Marvell 88E8056 gigabit ethernet controller

2007-08-17 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 05:03:41PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:42:13 -0700 (PDT) Kevin E [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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