From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:30:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:29:51 -0500 Received: from isis.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.21]:20399 "EHLO isis.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:29:42 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5D9AB1.39F6627C@uow.edu.au> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:36:17 +1100 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dth@lin-gen.com CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Drivers under 2.4 In-Reply-To: <20010110223836.A7321@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <93k1k0$87v$1@voyager.cistron.net> <20010111113134.A20569@gruyere.muc.suse.de>, <20010111113134.A20569@gruyere.muc.suse.de>; from ak@suse.de on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:31:34AM +0100 <20010111115833.A27971@lin-gen.com> 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 Danny ter Haar wrote: > > According to Andi Kleen: > > "Doesn't work" isn't a very useful bug report. What happens exactly? > > Do the RX/TX/error counters increase when you try to send packets? > > no, the counters you see with ifconfig eth0 are set to zero > for rx and to 1 for tx. > > So it's trying to send out data but somehow it doesn't work. > Since the driver version is the same (althoud the output is > slihtly different which seems odd) i suspect the PCI > probing to be folded somewhere. > > How could i provide people with more info ? There's a "reporting problems" section at the end of Documentation/networking/vortex.txt. Should help. Probably the most important thing is inserting the driver module with `debug=7', opening the device, sending some traffic and then sending us the logs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/