Summary: | [2.4] forcedeth seriously broken on gentoo-sources-2.4.26-r13 | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Joerg Schaible <joerg.schaible> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | critical | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: |
forcedeth-0.30.patch
forcedeth-0.30-2.4.28.patch |
Description
Joerg Schaible
2004-12-11 04:16:36 UTC
Please test 2.4.28, I'm fairly sure its fixed there Hmmm. Meanwhile I've used the patch from here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.commits.2-4/8779 to update the forcedeth driver from verison 0.25 to 0.30. I had to modify that patch to apply it though ... I'll attach it. Works so far, but this was not long enough to say something final. Created attachment 45761 [details, diff]
forcedeth-0.30.patch
patch to upgrade forcedeth 0.25 to 0.30 in 2.4.26 kernel
Unfortunately the update to 0.30 of forcedeth did not help. Same problems, but without entries in the kernel log :( Will try 2.4.28 next ... Unfortunately gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r2 did not help either. They have still forcedeth-0.25 and after some time suddently the entries in the log appeared and the client was cut from the net. Will now apply patch for forcedeth and try again. Created attachment 46009 [details, diff]
forcedeth-0.30-2.4.28.patch
Patch for gentoo-sources-2.4.28-r2 to upgrade to forcedeth-0.30. Did
unfortunately not work either. Network nearly down (ping loses 80% data) with
no entry in the kernel logs (same behaviour as 2.4.28).
And it's getting weird. I've resurrected nforce-net-1.0.0261-r2 and booted with this driver. Network still fails ... 80% data losses for ping. I am now tempted to resurrect last gs-sources. I am quite sure I never had this issue with that kernel. Hmmm. I was able to stop net.eth1, unload module nvnet, load forcedeth-0.30 instead and after restarting my dependent services, the network worked for some minutes normally, but then started to fail then again. Sigh. OK, meanwhile I assume it must bge something else. Just tried last gs-sources with the nforce-net and the network fails also. :( OK. Exchanged my switch and network seems operational at full speed again. Had hardly any connection in the last two days. At least you have now a patch to upgrade forcedeth for 2.4.26 and 2.4.28 :) Therefore I did not close this issue, since I don't know, if you'll gonna integrate it. Patch no longer applies to latest 2.4.28 version in gentoo-sources. |