[Bug 136836] Re: Ethernet (nVidia MCP55) not working [ gutsy, hardy]

2008-12-29 Thread Andreas Petlund
I agree that a mechanism for detecting functionality with different values would be superior to the quirk workaround. I added that on the assumption that this was a one-time problem which was caused by a BIOS bug on the Asus P5N32-SLI Premium. Since different potentially related occurrences have su

[Bug 136836] Re: Ethernet (nVidia MCP55) not working [ gutsy, hardy]

2008-11-21 Thread Andreas Petlund
After looking into the problem, I'm convinced that my problem (with the P5N32-SLI Premium mobo), is caused by a buggy BIOS. I also have the same PCI bridge and NIC on another Asus motherboard, where it works flawlessly (for small and large data transfers). I have submitted a kernel patch where msi

[Bug 136836] Re: Ethernet (nVidia MCP55) not working [ gutsy, hardy]

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Petlund
Thanks for the feedback. I'm primarily trying to find out if this is P5N32-SLI-specific, so a clarification of the above question is: Are there anybody (in addition to me) who still experiences the network problems after upgrading to 2.6.27+ and has other motherboards than the Asus P5N32-SLI Premiu

[Bug 136836] Re: Ethernet (nVidia MCP55) not working [ gutsy, hardy]

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Petlund
I got no suggestions/feedback when posting this question on the netdev- list, but I have done some experimenting with msi disabling for affected devices in order to produce a (preliminary) patch. What I would like to know is if there are other motherboards than the Asus P5N32-SLI Premium which are

[Bug 136836] Re: Ethernet (nVidia MCP55) not working [ gutsy, hardy]

2008-11-06 Thread Andreas Petlund
I've tested the current development kernel (2.6.28-rc3) on my computer (Asus P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard), and the problem is still present. I can take this to the mailing lists to try to find a reasonable solution. -- Ethernet (nVidia MCP55) not working [ gutsy, hardy] https://bugs.launchpad.n