Have been using kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r5 for quite awhile because of problems getting skge to even work. Sk98lin has to be patched with the syskonnect patch to work. Finally got around to try a new kernel: kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3 Now nothing I do works! Have to boot back to the 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 to have network. The only thing different than before is skge driver actually does kick on the router lights like it is going to work. Didn't do that before when wrote last bug on this. Otherwise, both skge and sk98lin (patched and unpatched) turns on the router lights like they are working. If you start net.eth0 it seems like it is working and get assigned my static ip, netmask, gateway,.. But there is no connection, can't ping anybody. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Compiled and installed kernel-2.6.13-gentoo-r3. Made skge and sk98lin modules. Commented them out of /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. Rebooted and tried each after stopping net.eth0. Router lights come on, net.eth0 seems to be aquiring what it needs. Ethernet Does Not Work. Tried to patch I used on sk98lin with patch used on 2.6.11-gentoo-r5, but it would fail on compile or applying the patch on 2.6.13-gentoo-r3. So got the newer patch and it worked. But no go either. So now even sk98lin isn't working. NEVER have gotten skge to work, even now with new kernel. Actual Results: Neither skge or sk98lin drivers work in 2.6.13-gentoo-r3. Seems like network is coming up, but it isn't working. Network works on other kernel, with patched sk98lin driver. Skge will not work on either kernel.
Few more details. Kernel and sk98lin driver that works in 2.6.11-gentoo-r5: # ethtool -i eth0 driver: sk98lin version: 8.15.1.3 (01) firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:02:0b.0 # cat /proc/net/sk98lin/eth0 Detailed statistic for device eth0 ======================================= Board statistics Card name Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter Vendor/Device ID 11ab/4320 Card type (Bit) 32 Active Port A Preferred Port A Interrupt Moderation disabled Bus type PCI Bus speed (MHz) 33 Bus width (Bit) 32 Driver version 8.15.1.3 (01) Driver release date Mar-07-2005 Hardware revision v1.3 Receive statistics Received bytes 43901 Received packets 151 Receive errors 0 Receive dropped 0 Received multicast 0 Transmit statistics Transmitted bytes 13023 Transmitted packets 133 Transmit errors 0 Transmit dropped 0 Transmit collisions 0 Kernel 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 and neither skge or sk98lin (patched or not) works: With sk98lin driver patched: # ethtool -i eth0 driver: sk98lin version: 8.28.1.3 (01) firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:02:0b.0 With skge driver: # ethtool -i eth0 driver: skge version: 1.0 firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:02:0b.0 # cat /proc/net/sk98lin/eth0 info is the same except for the driver version and Receive/Transmit packets. skge produces nothing in /proc/net for either kernel. Let me know if need any further information. Apparently Marvell chipset is very picky. Will provide what you need it can. Seems like going to be awhile before can upgrade kernel still. Sad thing is it works fine in this kernel and with sk98lin.
Please discount sk98lin from your tests as its much harder for us to get support there. Please attach "lspci -v" output. If you are using skge as built in, place "skge.debug=16" on your kernel command line. Otherwise load skge with "modprobe skge debug=16". Hopefully this won't produce too much output. After trying to use your network, please attach full dmesg output.
Please do those tests on the latest development kernel (vanilla-sources-2.6.14_rc5). There is a fix in there which looks promising. Don't worry about testing 2.6.13 as well.
Good call on the kernel to test Daniel! Don't know if you still want the output/info now cause it WORKS! Without all the details of configuring kernel, nvidia troubles,... at first, I can say that skge module came up and am using the vanilla 2.6.14_rc5 kernel right now to write this in Konqueror. There is one thing though. I commented out the skge module kernel-2.6 file. After bootup, checked 'lsmod' and skge was loaded. But net wasn't working. After stopping net.eth0, removing and reinserting skge module, it came right up. So uncommented it in kernel-2.6 file and rebooted and worked right off bat. If it is autoloading the skge module, without it being told to by kernel-2.6 file, shouldn't it have worked? Not a big deal though. Anyway, if you want the output/info still let me know. Do you want to close this cause the developmental kernel works or want to find out why it does and not in the 2.6.13 kernel and try to backport a patch or something?
Just need to release 2.6.14 (and include this patch in future 2.6.13 releases if there are any)
Fixed in gentoo-sources-2.6.14
