Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-06-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 12:33:21 -0700 "Guenther Thomsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was perhaps a bit quick to declare victory. While the results below stand > and the machine survived the last few days (idle), it occurred to me only > today, to have a look at the kernel's message buffer, where

RE: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-06-07 Thread Guenther Thomsen
ere yet. cheers Guenther -Original Message- From: Guenther Thomsen Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 9:06 PM To: 'Stephen Hemminger' Cc: John W. Linville; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: RE: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1 I received the hardware back and to

RE: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-06-03 Thread Guenther Thomsen
DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1 Could you try the 2.6.17-rc4 version with this patch. It turns out the board seems to give out of order status responses. Ignore the vendor sk98lin driver, when I try the stock version it spends it's life resetting itself because it sets up PCI bus

RE: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-05-16 Thread Guenther Thomsen
Cc: John W. Linville; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1 Could you try the 2.6.17-rc4 version with this patch. It turns out the board seems to give out of order status responses. Ignore the vendor sk98lin driver, when I try the stock

Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-05-16 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Could you try the 2.6.17-rc4 version with this patch. It turns out the board seems to give out of order status responses. Ignore the vendor sk98lin driver, when I try the stock version it spends it's life resetting itself because it sets up PCI bus wrong. If I fix that, it spends it's time getting

Re: sky2 driver problems in 2.6.17-rc2-git6 (was: Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-26 Thread Guenther Thomsen
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:44, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:06:25 -0700 > > Guenther Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > Considering the recent NFS changes, I tried to get the system into > > this state using just ttcp. With some determination, three more > > hosts a

Re: sky2 driver problems in 2.6.17-rc2-git6 (was: Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-26 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 17:06:25 -0700 Guenther Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 17 April 2006 11:18, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > I don't know what you are doing different, but my 2 port SysKonnect > > card is working fine. Running SMP AMD64 and 2.6.17 latest. > > > > Showing full spee

sky2 driver problems in 2.6.17-rc2-git6 (was: Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1)

2006-04-25 Thread Guenther Thomsen
On Monday 17 April 2006 11:18, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I don't know what you are doing different, but my 2 port SysKonnect > card is working fine. Running SMP AMD64 and 2.6.17 latest. > > Showing full speed on both ports. I missed that e-mail, sorry. I just gave it another try, this time with

Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-17 Thread Stephen Hemminger
I don't know what you are doing different, but my 2 port SysKonnect card is working fine. Running SMP AMD64 and 2.6.17 latest. Showing full speed on both ports. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-12 Thread Guenther Thomsen
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 14:48, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > You need this patch, which Jeff hasn't applied yet. > - > Subject: sky2: crash when bringing up second port > > Sky2 driver will oops referencing bad memory if used on > a dual port card. The problem is accessing past end of > MIB co

Re: kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
You need this patch, which Jeff hasn't applied yet. - Subject: sky2: crash when bringing up second port Sky2 driver will oops referencing bad memory if used on a dual port card. The problem is accessing past end of MIB counter space. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

kernel panic (on DHCP discover?) in sky2 driver of 2.6.17-rc1

2006-04-12 Thread Guenther Thomsen
I'm happy to report, that the version of the sky2 driver in 2.6.17-rc1 yields line rate at low CPU utilization (as determined using ttcp). Unfortunately, it's not quite bug-free yet ;-} When enabling the second interface (of the same network controller) the kernel panics (perhaps during DHCP d