Bug 106957 – vmware say: Unknown EII protocol ...

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description vyp08 2005-09-22 23:10:35 UTC]

Motherboard ASUS P4P800, intergrated Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 
Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13).
After change in kernel driver from obsolete CONFIG_SK98LIN to new CONFIG_SKGE and start 
vmware, in syslog appears lines:
Unknown EII protocol 0806: csum at 64362
Unknown EII protocol 0806: csum at 34474
and more, more, more.
I grep this string in source of kernel and binary modules and find it in vmnet.o.
Then i untar vmnet.tar and comment this line in bridge.c, rename vmnet.tar to vmnet.tar.old, 
tar new vmnet.tar, run vmware-config.pl, /etc/init.d/vmware start and all ok.
But this step is not good idea, because i'm not undestand cause of problem.                         
Same decision i detect in http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-340588-highlight-unknown+eii.
html

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. change driver ethernet controller from CONFIG_SK98LIN to CONFIG_SKGE and make kernel
2. reboot
3. /etc/init.d/vmware start

Actual Results:  
lines "Unknown EII protocol 0806: csum at xxx" in syslog

Expected Results:  
no lines "Unknown EII protocol 0806: csum at xxx" in syslog

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-09-23 05:37:29 UTC]

Well, it would seem to be something driver-specific, no?

[Comment 2 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-28 08:36:05 UTC]

Can anyone verify that this is still an issue with newer kernels?

[Comment 3 vyp08 2006-09-28 21:25:18 UTC]

2.6.16-hardened-r10
app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175-r3
ok

[Comment 4 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-09-29 05:59:37 UTC]

So this is no longer an issue?

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-04-08 16:33:42 UTC]

Get back to us if you still have issues.