Re: forcedeth problems on 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

[Robert Hancock]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

That's essentially what I did, it didn't appear to help. I assume the
problem must lie elsewhere..

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