Re: forcedeth problems on 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

[Andrew Morton]

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 23:13:09 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Something's busted with forcedeth in 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 for me relative to 
> 2.6.20-rc6. There's no errors in dmesg, but it seems no packets ever get 
> received and so the machine can't get an IP address. I tried reverting 
> all the -mm changes to drivers/net/forcedeth.c, which didn't help. The 
> network controller shares an IRQ with the USB OHCI controller which is 
> receiving interrupts, so it doesn't seem like an interrupt routing 
> problem, though I suppose something wierd could be happening there.
> 
> This is on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe (CK804 chipset) on x86_64.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to debug/what to try reverting to see what's 
> causing this?

There are many forcedeth changes in git-netdev-all.patch.  Can you
try reverting drivers/net/forcedeth.c back to the unpatched version
from 2.6.20-rc6?

Thanks.
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