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 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

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:

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 Ult

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 le

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

2007-08-22 Thread Kevin E
--- 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. >