[SOLVED] P4C800 deluxe 3C940 kernel 2.6.21-r1 skge

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dom_ · Post by **dom_** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:46 am

Hello,

I wanted to change the driver for my network controler which is supposed to be a 3c940
(P4C800 deluxe) as the sk98lin is deprecated and will be removed in favor of skge.

The output of lspci is :

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02:05.0 Ethernet controller: SysKonnect SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-ZX Adapter, PCI64, Fiber ZX/SC (rev 10)
        Subsystem: SysKonnect SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-ZX Adapter, PCI64, Fiber ZX/SC
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22
        Memory at feaf8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data

When using sk98lin, everything is just working fine. Here is the output of dmesg :

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sk98lin: driver has been replaced by the skge driver and is scheduled for removal
eth0: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
      PrefPort:A  RlmtMode:Check Link State
eth0: network connection up using port A
    speed:           100
    autonegotiation: yes
    duplex mode:     full
    flowctrl:        symmetric
    irq moderation:  disabled
    scatter-gather:  disabled
    tx-checksum:     disabled
    rx-checksum:     disabled

When I try to use skge driver, it doesn't work. Here are the errors i get when trying to /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start :

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 * Starting eth0
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
 *   Bringing up eth0
 *     192.168.1.103
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument                                                                            [ ok ]
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid argument
 *   Adding routes
 *     default via 192.168.1.1 ...
SIOCADDRT: No such process                                                                                [ !! ]

Here is the output of dmesg for the skge module :

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skge 1.10 addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 22 chip Yukon rev 1
skge 0000:02:05.0: bad (zero?) ethernet address in rom
skge eth0: addr 00:00:00:00:00:00

Any help would be very much appreciated.

edit: solved , see last posts

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dom

mudrii · Post by **mudrii** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:17 am

after boot try to modprobe it manualy

dom_ · Post by **dom_** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:37 am

This is what i did,

I tried sky2 module too, no success,
I will try to move those modules and insmod them after boot and post the result.

thank you.

dom

VoVaN · Post by **VoVaN** » Fri May 25, 2007 12:24 pm

I have the same motherboard and skge driver works just fine here with the latest stable gentoo sources (2.6.20-gentoo-r8). Nevertheless, I didn't test the kernel version you're using.

mudrii · Post by **mudrii** » Sat May 26, 2007 7:05 am

dom_ you can try to move to more stable kernel

dom_ · Post by **dom_** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:57 am

Hello,

I tried to insmod after reboot and no good result with that.
Just to say i also tried mm-sources-2.6.22 and it didn't work.

Thanks VoVaN and mudrii,
i'll try to get it work with 2.6.20. the problem is that i didn't find any related problem
on the kernel.org mailing list. I'll post there if the 2.6.20 works for me too.

VoVan, can you tell me which bios revision you are running ?

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dom

VoVaN · Post by **VoVaN** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:10 am

dom_ wrote:Hello,

I tried to insmod after reboot and no good result with that.
Just to say i also tried mm-sources-2.6.22 and it didn't work.

Thanks VoVaN and mudrii,
i'll try to get it work with 2.6.20. the problem is that i didn't find any related problem
on the kernel.org mailing list. I'll post there if the 2.6.20 works for me too.

VoVan, can you tell me which bios revision you are running ?

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dom

BIOS: 1021.004 (05/24/2005)

dom_ · Post by **dom_** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:57 pm

VoVaN wrote: BIOS: 1021.004 (05/24/2005)

Thank you for the reply, i'm running 1021 beta 5, i tried revision 1019 without success.
This thing is driving me mad.

Hardware :
3 sata disks set to ide mode, 2 ide disks + 1 cdrom
1 agp ati x800 video card
1 pc tv rave

The thing in bios I have that can be involved here :
- All IRQs are set to available,
- acpi on, apic on
- hyperthreading on

I tried various combination IRQ reserved, acpi apic on/off, hyperthreading off ... with no success
perhaps a bad harware.

The error message from skge is strange, it complains about a bad mac address :

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skge 1.10 addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 21 chip Yukon rev 1
skge 0000:02:05.0: bad (zero?) ethernet address in rom
skge eth0: addr 00:00:00:00:00:00

the strange thing is that with sk98lin, the mac adresse is also 00:00:00:00:00:00, but it works.
I tried another time to insmod skge, it didn't work the first time but i get it to work with :

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ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether 12:34:56:78:90:12
ifconfig eth0 up
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

Here is the output for that lines in dmesg:

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skge 1.10 addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 21 chip Yukon rev 1
skge 0000:02:05.0: bad (zero?) ethernet address in rom
skge eth0: addr 00:00:00:00:00:00
skge eth0: enabling interface
skge eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
skge eth0: disabling interface
skge eth0: enabling interface
skge eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both

I'm going to set mac_eth0 in conf.d/net and reboot to see what will happen.

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dom

dom_ · Post by **dom_** » Sun May 27, 2007 2:32 pm

Putting that in /etc/conf.d/net did the job :

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mac_eth0=( "12:34:56:78:90:12" );

If someone has an idea of the reason why my mac address is set to 0, i'll take it ....

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dom