Weird DMESG errors pretty annoying.

diastelo · Guru Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 521

I did a little digging to try and figure out what EII could be referring to. Do you have a TV card installed? If so, it's probably generated by the kernel or a software package like MythTV. You should look to see if you have a verbose setting on the driver for the card.
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Um_Help · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 74

Ahh!! That sounds like something that might be a problem because right at the moment my tv card doesnt work!!! Now the only problem is to figure out how to fix that.

I use a:
Leadtek WinFast TV2000 XP

Kernel drivers:
<M> BT848 Video For Linux
<M> Conexant 2388x (bt878 successor) support

I orginally just had the BT848 driver as a module but ever since I updated to 2.6.11-r4, I was having trouble getting the card to work. So I decided to give the Conexant 2388x driver and try and it was no help. So I got tired of trying to fix the tvcard so i just gave up.

In all the previous kernel versions i used the BT848 driver and everything worked fine. So my guess is that there is something going wrong when it tries to load/use that driver. Now that we narrowed down the problem any idea how to fix it?

Thanks

chebe · Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:04 am Post subject:

Could you give us the output of lspci ?
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Um_Help · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 74

Um_Help · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 74

Alright now my TV card shows up. I reseated the card after i didnt see it in lspci

diastelo · Guru Joined: 23 Feb 2004 Posts: 521

I thought it might be a problem with a debugging flag. That is, some loaded module might be outputting debugging messages to your system logs. I thought it had something to do with the tuner module, or the module for your tv card. You should check in /etc/modules.d/ and see if anything stands out. (Such as an option like debug=1)
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danyer · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:28 am Post subject:

dan@shuttle:/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r11/misc> grep EII *
Binary file vmnet.ko matches
Binary file vmnet.o matches
dan@shuttle:/lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r11/misc> strings vmnet.ko|grep EII
<7>Unknown EII protocol %04X: csum at %d

The messages are posted by VMware net driver.

from the output of lspci I see you have a Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Gigabit Ethernet Controller

remember the problem with VPD keys. We've got rid of it by replacing the sk98lin driver in kernel with skge (something like that) which doesn't post errors, but I think the error still exists and it is posted by vmware now.

I'm going to patch my ethernet card. Hope it works. I'll be back (I hope).

danyer · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:55 am Post subject:

network card patched (google for vpd_patch.zip) but this was not the problem. I still have messages...

Time to take the hammer.

Search for vmnet.tar
untar it somewhere
cd to somewhere /vmnet-only
edit bridge.c
search for the EII line. see nice comment: Maybe some kernel will get it right.
comment out the line which LOGS the EII error.
make
/etc/init.d/vmware stop
cp ../vmnet.o /lib/modules/2.6.11-gentoo-r11/misc/vmnet.o
/etc/init.d/vmware start

problem solved, but still unhappy. why did I get that message? the problem will be completely solved when I'll be able to understand the cause. now the message is gone, but the cause remains.

enjoy,
Dan.

rusxakep · Guru Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 458

I have motherboard (ASUS P5P800) with Marvel Network Gigaset chip. I'm replace old deprecated driver to skge and get now this message.

I think problem is skge module and vmware workstation 5.0.x

Maybe, we need send bug report to Gentoo?