On Monday 29 May 2006 18:48, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
[snip irrelevant Other OS discussion]
>
> I can concur that the forcedeth is unreliable on nvidia based motherboards.
> I have a ethernet device that works with forcedeth.
> 0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
> 0000:00:0a.0 0680: 10de:0057 (rev a3)
> Subsystem: 147b:1c12
> Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 11
> Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
> I/O ports at fc00 [size=8]
> Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
> It works in that it can actually send and receive packets.
> The problems are:
> 1) one cannot rmmod the forcedeth module. Even after ifdown etc.
> 2) the machine hangs randomly.
> Before someone asks, the MB has no serial port, so no stack trace
> available. 3) The netconsole fails to function with it.
File a bug report. What kernel version did you last test?
I have that exact ethernet controller (CK804) and cannot reproduce any of the
problems you have listed on 2.6.17-rc5.
--
Cheers,
Alistair.
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
