Re: 3COM 3C940, does not work anymore after upgrade to 2.6.15

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 16:51:22 +0100
Björn Nilsson <bni.swe@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with the network card attached to my motherboard
> after doing an upgrade of the kernel from 2.6.11 to 2.6.15.
> 
> The Motherboard is an ASUS P4P800, and the network card is 3COM 3C940
> and is afaik a variant of SysKonnect SK-98xx.
> 
> It worked with 2.6.15 until I shut the system down and started it up
> again for the first time with 2.6.15 running, and now the card does
> not work anymore. The driver is loaded, and it detects that the cable
> is plugged in and the interface is brought up (so says dmesg). The
> green led on the card is now turned off, it used to be on before.
> 
> I have tried to reinstall the system from scratch (Using Debian 3.1
> installer cd), and to my astonishment the card is not working like it
> used to.
> 
> It seems like 2.6.15 set the card in some state so it does not work
> anymore. Is this even possible? I have tried power cycling, even
> disconnected the power coord from the computer.
> 
> When i used 2.6.11 I was using the sk98lin driver, when upgrading it
> is possible the newer skge driver was used, however I am not sure.
> 
> Debian installer 3.1 uses 2.6.8 kernel with sk98lin driver.
> 
> I have found others with the same/similar problem:
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100258
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112268414417743&w=2
> 
> But for me the card does not work even with 2.6.15. I dont have
> Wind*ws to test with, so I cant test the solution in one of the above
> emails.
> 
> If the driver in 2.6.15 breaks cards of this type it is qiute a
> serious bug I think. Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can try
> to fix this? Reset the card in some way maybe?
> 
> Please CC me.
> 
> Regards
> /Björn

Pleas send me some more info.
* console output (dmesg)
* lspci -v
* which modules are loaded (lsmod)


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