Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > > > Here is what goes wrong: > > > > Dec 6 04:21:32 agate kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register . > > But it continues to work, right? > > I bet that your ethernet card is just unhappy that it couldn't get DM

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > I have also just tried a test pass with 3c59x built in and > USB built as modules. I booted with only the 3c575 inserted. > I got eth0 running and then loaded usb-ohci (with the enable > bus mastering change added). This resulted in modprobe hanging >

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > >> Here is what goes wrong: >> >> Dec 6 04:21:32 agate kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register . > > > But it continues to work, right? I'll check. My system only has 80MB RAM, and I run Mozilla, which pushe

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > Here is what goes wrong: > > Dec 6 04:21:32 agate kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnostic register . But it continues to work, right? I bet that your ethernet card is just unhappy that it couldn't get DMA in time, because the bus was so busy.

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Linus, Thanks for the reply. I agree with your analysis of the information I reported in this message. However, in previous related bug reports I mentioned actual functional conflicts between the drivers. Here is what goes wrong: Dec 6 04:21:32 agate kernel: eth0: Host error, FIFO diagnos

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > If I insert both my 3c575 and Belkin BusPort Mobile USB host-controller > and then enable both of them, "modprobe usb-ohci" hangs. If I then > attempt "modprobe -r 3c59x", that process hangs, too. lsmod shows: > > usb-ohci 15072 1 (init

Re: The horrible hack from hell called A20

2000-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
I reported problems with using my two Cardbus cards simultaneously with previous test12 releases. The behavior has changed with pre6. #1 When I run "ifup eth0", I get an error message: SIOCADDRT: File exists SIOCADDRT: File exists This happens even when my 3c575 Cardbus ethern