[parisc-linux] PCI Intel EtherExpressPro100 strangeness on C200 machine.

[B. Douglas Hilton]

Here is my dmesg output that your requested, and my
ifconfig status right after booting. I typed this in
by hand, hopefully no typos.


eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
eth0: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100], 00:90:27:60:CB:E6, IRQ 130.
   Board assembly 721383-006, Physical connectors present: RJ45
   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
   General self-test: passed.
   Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
   Internal registers self-test: passed.
   ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x8b51f404).


eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr:00:90:27:60:CB:E6
         inet addr:192.168.100.115  Bcast:192.168.100.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
         RX packets:25 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:9 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
         RX bytes:2668 (2.6 KiB)  TX bytes:558 (558.0 b)
         Interrupt:130 Base address:0xf000



Well, I'm heading out to camp. Back on Monday.

Cheers!
- Doug




Grant Grundler wrote:
> Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
> 
>>just append " || defined(__hppa__)" to line 47 of drivers/net/eepro100.c
>>I got mine working that way.
> 
> 
> The RX_ALIGN shouldn't strictly be needed. It's a performance improvement.
> It means the misaligned access handling isn't working right. And should be
> spewing something to the kernel dmesg buf. IIRC, Randolph Chung has done a
> great job on getting most of the misaligned access emulation working right.
> If you get console/dmesg output when using eepro100, please post it here.
> 
> If someone with CVS access has time, please enable the RX_ALIGN
> code for __hppa__ as well. I have other changes outstanding (cpqfc)
> that I want to finished up and committed first.
> 
> grant
>