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Abekat
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:15 am Post subject: |
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| mrpdaemon wrote: | Compile fixes for Marvell's sk98lin 10.50.1.3 to compile against linux 2.6.24:
skge.c:90:
| Code: | >#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,24)
>#define proc_net init_net.proc_net
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skge.c:434:
| Code: | | <SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev); |
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after applying theese changes i still get a bunch of compile errors
| Code: | drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c: In function 'sk98lin_init_device':
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:471: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'poll'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:472: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'weight'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:477: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'poll'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:478: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'weight'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:595: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'poll'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:596: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'weight'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:601: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'poll'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:602: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'weight'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c: In function 'SkGeIsr':
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:2144: error: too few arguments to function 'netif_rx_schedule_prep'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:2147: error: too few arguments to function '__netif_rx_schedule'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c: In function 'SkGeIsrOnePort':
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:2315: error: too few arguments to function 'netif_rx_schedule_prep'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:2320: error: too few arguments to function '__netif_rx_schedule'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c: In function 'SkGePoll':
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:3059: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'quota'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:3059: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of '_y'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:3059: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'quota'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:3080: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'quota'
drivers/net/sk98lin/skge.c:3084: error: too few arguments to function 'netif_rx_complete'
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thats without CONFIG_SK98LIN_NAPI set
any chance someone could make a proper patch for the 2.6.24 kernel ? |
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VinzC
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Abekat wrote: | | any chance someone could make a proper patch for the 2.6.24 kernel ? |
I did. But I must admit I dropped Marvell's driver for the built-in kernel driver. Do you want me to pastebin my patch?
EDIT: That's because their driver yet drops connections but you won't see anything in the log when it happens; the driver doesn't seem to use kprint at all...
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Abekat
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| Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:39 pm Post subject: |
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| VinzC wrote: | I did. But I must admit I dropped Marvell's driver for the built-in kernel driver. Do you want me to pastebin my patch?
EDIT: That's because their driver yet drops connections but you won't see anything in the log when it happens; the driver doesn't seem to use kprint at all... |
been running with marvells driver for a good 9 months without any problems at all, tried the build in kernel driver and had nothing but trouble, so if you could post your patch i'll try it, would be top notch |
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I'm annoyed: pastebin times out while sending the patch...  I'll try another way.
Note my network card dropped its last connection yesterday evening.I've plugged in a new card (Dlink with a Via Rhine chipset). Ciao baby...
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| VinzC wrote: | I did. But I must admit I dropped Marvell's driver for the built-in kernel driver. Do you want me to pastebin my patch?
EDIT: That's because their driver yet drops connections but you won't see anything in the log when it happens; the driver doesn't seem to use kprint at all... |
| Abekat wrote: | | been running with marvells driver for a good 9 months without any problems at all, tried the build in kernel driver and had nothing but trouble, so if you could post your patch i'll try it, would be top notch |
Here it is: http://users.teledisnet.be/web/vca08867/linux/sk98lin_v10.50.1.3_2.6.24-r2.patch.bz2
Sorry for being late. I've run into troubles with several network cards on that machine that I had to fix first. It's not in pastebin for it's too big I think. I've place the zipped file on my own space @ my ISP.
The patch is for 2.6.24-gentoo-r2 but it also applies to -r3. I won't test it against -r4 for I've definitely dropped Marvel.
EDIT: After all I've just installed Gentoo Sources 2.6.24-r4 (AMD64) and the patch applies successfully. Who said I wouldn't? 
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smoco
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| Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: Manufacturer drivers |
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| I have problems with this on 2.6.2x kernel(under heavy load card stopped to work) and driver from manufacturer helps now server is running without problems more than 1 month (every night it backups about 20-100Gb trought network). |
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julakali
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| Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject: Thanks a lot! |
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I just updated my kernel to 2.6.24 and spent quite some time trying to build that damn proprietary Marvell sk98lin module.
I even sent an e-mail to Marvell Support 
But at last i searched this forums and found your patch.
Thank you very much, works quite well with 2.6.24-r4.
Let's hope someday sky2 will support the 88E8056 without problems... |
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HeXiLeD
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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so; is this is thelatest news about sky?
(Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15) )
is it finally working for everyone with this patch ?
http://users.teledisnet.be/web/vca08867/linux/sk98lin_v10.50.1.3_2.6.24-r2.patch.bz2
| Quote: | I just updated my kernel to 2.6.24 and spent quite some time trying to build that damn proprietary Marvell sk98lin module.
I even sent an e-mail to Marvell Support
Thank you very much, works quite well with 2.6.24-r4.
Let's hope someday sky2 will support the 88E8056 without problems... |
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julakali
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Hm yep.
We'll have a problem in the near future, in 2.6.26, the sk98lin module will be removed..
Time to buy new hardware with the release of 2.6.26 
Damn marvell... |
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jmandawg
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Has anyone tried the latest driver from Marvell's website:
Linux Driver Install Package for Yukon Devices 4/28/08 10.60.2.3
I tried to compile them on 2.6.24 but get multiple errors. Will the patch work on this version? |
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Cyker
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| Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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sky2 still working okay on my 88E8053.
I think I had another one of those hung mac fifo-whatever errors, but the fact that I can't remember for sure is a good sign
The bridge code seamlessly recovers now, which is a good bonus since I don't have to ssh in to reset that link anymore if it goes down. |
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VinzC
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| Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 8:09 am Post subject: |
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| jmandawg wrote: | Has anyone tried the latest driver from Marvell's website:
Linux Driver Install Package for Yukon Devices 4/28/08 10.60.2.3
I tried to compile them on 2.6.24 but get multiple errors. Will the patch work on this version? |
The patch I published is for gentoo-sources-2.6.24-r2 and above. Below releases of 2.6.24 require ordinary patching, i.e. follow the instructions from Marvell to patch your kernel. There should be no compilation error, IIRC.
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | We'll have a problem in the near future, in 2.6.26, the sk98lin module will be removed.. |
can we have it added as a portage module like we had before?
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VinzC
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| Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| julakali wrote: | | We'll have a problem in the near future, in 2.6.26, the sk98lin module will be removed.. |
| HeXiLeD wrote: | | can we have it added as a portage module like we had before? |
I don't think it's going to be a problem because Marvell's driver offers an option to build a patch for an existing kernel. This means that whether the code for the old driver exists or not it's (re)placed anyway. The only kind of thing that I'd fear is that Marvell doesn't update their driver for eventually new network API or the patching code builds an incompatible patch -- i.e. the reason why I posted the modified patch.
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naelq
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| Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: |
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hello,
i own an ABIT IP35 MoBo, which is awesome by the way, with the Marvell Yukon 88E8056
| Code: | lspci
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
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my problems started about 8 months when i made a major update for the system, & since then the NIC gone crazy, the symptoms (as some of you may encountered) were that the NIC was detected, dhcpcd could successfully assign it an IP address, but there wasn't any sign of life! no communications, & the 2nd (or more) time(s) i try to renew the IP address, dhcpcd would fail.. & since then i've been running a cheap PCI RTL8139 NIC..
today morning, i was looking for news about the Yukon support, & read something related to Firewire, that if it was enabled in the kernel, it would conflict with the sky2 driver...
| Code: | uname -a
Linux N-BOX-II 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 #5 SMP Thu Jul 24 05:53:19 UTC 2008 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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so, i recompiled my kernel without any Firewire support at all, & the filthy came back to life!!
i've been downloading/uploading CentOS via bittorrent for 3 hours now, no lockups/slow-downs utilizing all the 2.5Mbps connection i have. 
i thought that this might be useful for some of you guys, so would you please try to disable the Firewire support & check?
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julakali
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| Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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does your current patch work with 2.6.25 aswell?
edit: hm patch -p1 <yourpatchfile> gives the following errors:
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1 out of 259 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/net/sk98lin/skgepnmi.c.rej
patching file drivers/net/sk98lin/skgesirq.c
Hunk #46 FAILED at 1441.
1 out of 91 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/net/sk98lin/skgesirq.c.rej
can't find file to patch at input line 71018
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
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|diff -ruN linux/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt linux-new/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
|--- linux/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt 2008-01-24 23:58:37.000000000 +0100
|+++ linux-new/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.txt 2007-10-22 15:56:55.000000000 +0200
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But it compiles and works (at least for 5 minutes now ).
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julakali
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The last post in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-695648-highlight-88e8056.html says the same (regarding firewire).
I have not tried sky2 again (since it crashed my whole computer back in2.6.22 or so), because I didn't see any changes regarding 88E8056 in the kernel changelog.
| naelq wrote: | hello,
i own an ABIT IP35 MoBo, which is awesome by the way, with the Marvell Yukon 88E8056
| Code: | lspci
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
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my problems started about 8 months when i made a major update for the system, & since then the NIC gone crazy, the symptoms (as some of you may encountered) were that the NIC was detected, dhcpcd could successfully assign it an IP address, but there wasn't any sign of life! no communications, & the 2nd (or more) time(s) i try to renew the IP address, dhcpcd would fail.. & since then i've been running a cheap PCI RTL8139 NIC..
today morning, i was looking for news about the Yukon support, & read something related to Firewire, that if it was enabled in the kernel, it would conflict with the sky2 driver...
| Code: | uname -a
Linux N-BOX-II 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 #5 SMP Thu Jul 24 05:53:19 UTC 2008 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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so, i recompiled my kernel without any Firewire support at all, & the filthy came back to life!!
i've been downloading/uploading CentOS via bittorrent for 3 hours now, no lockups/slow-downs utilizing all the 2.5Mbps connection i have.
i thought that this might be useful for some of you guys, so would you please try to disable the Firewire support & check?
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| I haven't had any major issues recently with the stock sky2 driver in 2.6.26-gentoo kernel. Very rarely (once a few weeks or so) it gets into a bad state that adds 1 second latency to all packets (pinging my router shows 1 second), which immediately gets fixed by reloading the sky2 module. |
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Unless kernel policy has changed or the Marvell sources have been re-written, I doubt this will go through for the same reasons it was rejected last time...
Are people still having a lot of problems with the in-kernel sky2 driver then? It's been pretty stable for me for quite a long time now.
What I don't get is why whoever's maintaining sky2 can't just use the Marvell code to see why their code doesn't work as well... |
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julakali
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Sky2 is only causing trouble with 88E8056 chipsets, and as I read elsewhere, maybe it's dedicated to Gigabyte Mainboards too.
I'm currently using the closed source Marvell module (respectively the patch posted in this thread) and it's running fine with 2.6.25.
As soon as I compile a newer kernel, I'll try the sky2 module again. But I doubt that it works, because nothing regarding 88E8056 is written in the changelog. |
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What is the latest with 2.6.26 kernel ?
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julakali
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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| HeXiLeD wrote: | | What is the latest with 2.6.26 kernel ? |
Just compiled the sky2 module in 2.6.26 and booted the new kernel.
Seems to work for now (as mrpdaemon already stated except for the small bug he mentioned).
I will post any Problems as they occur. |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:33 am Post subject: sky2 issues in 2.6.27.2 |
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So I've had issues with my Marvell board. Sky2 works when built in the 2.6.24 series but in 25, 26, and 27 ssh connections just get dropped. Has anyone else experienced this? I will try it as a module and report back.
EDIT:: Nope no difference, and no errors on the debugging messages either. I'm beginning to hate this.
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The sky2 driver is really bad.
I have the Asus P5B-Deluxe loaded with latest v.1238 firmware now and running kernel 2.6.28
I can't get it to work with my Marvell 88E8056 card at all.
Sometimes it works and now i get Destination Hos Unreachable all the time.
Any solution to this as there are still major problems with the code in this driver? |
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