From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932456AbVH3UjF (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:39:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932454AbVH3UjF (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:39:05 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:12421 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932449AbVH3UjD (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:39:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:39:18 -0700 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Jesse Brandeburg Cc: Daniel Drake , Steve Kieu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems Message-ID: <20050830133918.42444cae@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: <4807377b05083013185767744a@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050830122937.79855.qmail@web53605.mail.yahoo.com> <43145FB5.6080300@gentoo.org> <4807377b05083013185767744a@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:18:57 -0700 Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > on 2.6.11/12 when it isn't working maybe you should send us the output > of lspci -vvv > > just a hint, I'm guessing its power management related, and / or > something to do with the pci bus code. Also, the dmesg output with skge driver will show chip version and revision. The problem is obviously some of the chip initialization that is complex with the Marvell chips. Something is probably missing. There was a fix in the latest 2.6.13 that is probably related: http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg00438.html