Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:49:37 +1000 (EST)
Steve Kieu <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> --- Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > You have a version of the Marvell Yukon that was
> > affected
> > by a fix in 2.6.13.
> > 	skge addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 19 chip Yukon-Lite rev 9
> > 
> > Both the skge and sk98lin driver were fixed to check
> > for this.
> > Without the fix, the chip will be in the wrong power
> > mode.
> > 
> > The version of sk98lin driver from SysKonnect
> > already had the
> > fix, so if your distro used that one, it would have
> > the reset
> > the power mode as needed.
> 
> I am afraid not. The last time, I reproduced the
> problem using the latest sk98lin driver from
> SysKonnect  (run create patch and patch the kernel
> 2.6.13). Problem still there. The file I got from
> sysconnect is:
> 
> install-8_23.tar.bz2

Just look for references to CHIP_REV_YU_LITE_A3 in the driver
	sk98lin/skgeinit.c and sk98lin/skxmac2.c
The comparison should always be:
	pAC->GIni.GIChipRev >= CHIP_REV_YU_LITE_A3
otherwise it will not correctly take chip out of powerdown (coma) mode.
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