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Message-ID: <46B8B3FA.3090403@intel.com> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:03:38 -0700 From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com> To: ericj <ericj@...cj.net> CC: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: e100 ericj wrote: > I want to thank everyone who helped with this. > > It was proven to be a hardware issue. The board designer had left a GPIO > pin in an indeterminate state because he was planning to use it later to > do something with the battery charge circuitry. > > I apologize for wasting everyone's time. happens to everyone :) Thanks for letting us know. Auke > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:45:09 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote >> [moving to netdev mailinglist] >> >> ericj wrote: >>> On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:20:58 -0500, ericj wrote >>>> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 12:13:28 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote >>>>> eepro100 is going to be removed. Please try e100 on 2.6.22 or >>>>> 2.6.23-rc2. >>>> I will give the 2.6.23 a try. >>> I tried 2.6.23-rc2 and there was no change. >>> >>> There is now some question from the hardware guys about whether the >>> eeproms were properly configured before shipping the boards. Is there >>> any documentation of the eeprom on an EE Pro 100 VE (ICH4) so that I can >>> figure out if any of the settings in there might be causing the problem? >>> >>> The only fields I know of for sure are the MAC address at the beginning >>> and the checksum at the end. I also see from the driver code that there >>> is at least one byte controlling wake-on-lan, which I don't care about - >>> unless it's the problem. >>> >>> Thanks for ethtool, by the way. It's been helpful in looking at this and >>> comparing the eeprom to an earlier version of the board that works. >> Eric, >> >> please don't forget that an entire team here at Intel is >> dedicated to supporting e100 and pro/1000 devices from Intel. >> >> Most of the pro/100 features are documented in the SDM which >> contains some references to the eeprom parts. Mostly the >> device doesn't need much configuration from the eeprom to work >> (unlike gigE parts). The SDM can be downloaded from our sf.net >> project page: >> >> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42302&package_id=68544 >> The issue that you are reporting: >> >> "My system boots fine but when I try to bring up the onboard >> ethernet (an EEPro 100 VE) I get a "Nobody Cares" message and >> the interrupt is disabled." >> >> However has been recently patched. This should have worked >> regardless of whether you used e100 or eepro100 (noting that >> nobody supports eepro100 anymore, you should really use e100 >> for all tests). >> >> if you look in drivers/pci/quirks.c you'll find that there is >> specific code for e100 devices. If this quirk doesn't work for >> you then we'll need to dig into that. For this I'd like you to >> gather: >> >> - `ethtool -e eth0` output >> - `lspci -n` output >> >> this will allow me to check the quirck code and see if it has >> the right device ID. I'm suspecting that the device ID is >> missing somehow, or the workaround fails. >> >> Auke > > > -- > > "A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something" -- Frank Capra > > Eric Johnson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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