Bug#298581: Ethernet Card Detection Fail on 1.8MHz PowerMac G5 (netboot)
Hello Joey,
> What we really need is the line from /proc/bus/pci/devices that ends in
> "sungem" after you've loaded the module. Without this info we don't have
> enough data to add to the hardware detection database.
There is no line ending with sungem in the above file.
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/proc/bus/pci # cat devices | grep sun
/proc/bus/pci #
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and this although sungem is loaded as a module:
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/proc/bus/pci # lsmod | grep sun
sungem 37124 0
crc32 5120 1 sungem
sungem_phy 10496 1 sungem
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I've looked up the PCI device number (106b:0051), and it corresponds to
the Shasta (Sun GEM) Ethernet Controller of Apple [1,2,3]. According to
Benjamin Herrenschmidt, the kernel is missing the proper PCI ID for this
particular chip (because it is quite recent). There are a few patches
around [4] that I plan to try to build a kernel that will work on my
machine. Apparently it has a similar chipset at the new iMac G5, so the
same patches should apply.
Kind regards
Francois
[1] http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids
[2] http://www.pcidatabase.com/reports.php?type=tab-delimeted
[3] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G5/PowerMacG5_SP/2Architecture/chapter_3_section_7.html
[4] http://ozlabs.org/ppc64-patches/
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 19:41, Joey Hess wrote:
> Francois wrote:
> > The network hardware detection does not detect any ethernet card (though
> > I've got one). I'm then asked by d-i to select a card type from a menu.
> > I select sungem (Benjamin Herrenschmidt has confirmed me that all recent
> > Apple machines have a sungem), but d-i brings me back to the card
> > selection menu.
>
> This looks like two separate bugs, we have a d-i bug that it does not
> know what module to load for your ethernet card, and unforutnatly also
> apparently a kernel bug in that it does not work with your ethernet
> card.
>
> > lspci is not available, but here is an extract from /proc/pci (I don't
> > copy everything, as I have no way to cut and paste from the console to
> > my mailer ;o/ ):
> >
> > ------
> > ~ # cat /proc/pci
> > <snip/>
> > Bus 3, device 15, function 0:
> > Ethernet controller: PCI device 106b:0051 (Apple Computer Inc.) (rev 0).
> > IRQ 40
> > Master Capable. Latency=16. Min Gnt=64.Max Lat=64.
> > Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80400000 [0x805fffff]
> > <snip/>
> > -------
>
> What we really need is the line from /proc/bus/pci/devices that ends in
> "sungem" after you've loaded the module. Without this info we don't have
> enough data to add to the hardware detection database.
>
> > If I try ifconfig eth0 though I get
> > -------
> > /usr/bin # ifconfig eth0
> > ifconfig: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
> > -------
>
> Is there anything interesting in dmesg at this point?
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