Re: [2.3.51] via-rhine died

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Thu Mar 16 2000 - 04:39:52 EST


On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Urban Widmark wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, GOTO Masanori wrote:
>
> > At Sat, 11 Mar 2000 16:16:54 +0100 (CET),
> > Urban Widmark <urban@svenskatest.se> wrote:
> > > > When I try to ping anything outside my box, I get 'unreachable' errors. I
> > > > tried compiling it as a module or inside the kernel - no luck. 2.3.49
> > > > worked fine.
> > >
> > > Same here. My kernel log:
> >
> > Also same under my environment.
> > This problem was appeared under 2.3.50:
>
> I get no interrupts from the card with 2.3.51 and pre-2.3.52-2 (assuming
> 2.3.50 would be the same). It appears something was lost in the change to
> the init routine.

There are alignment issues which the current driver is missing. It
appears that the driver needs greater than 32-byte alignment (as claimed
by the code) in order to function correctly, since init_etherdev()
should now provide 32-byte alignment.

        Jeff

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