Re: forcedeth fails on second port with error -12

[Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu>]

Thanks for (both) reply(s).
BIOS update ? Does this still apply when both NICs show up fine under 
WindowsXP(x64) ?
I have never flashed the BIOS and heard bad stories about it's possibly 
disastrous consequences ...

Are you using forcedeth ? Did you need to edit any files (like /etc/modules) ?

Thanks,
Sebastian Haase


On Monday 17 April 2006 20:11, reeses1@comcast.net wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> This board had a bad habit of leaving the second NICs MAC address all
> zeros.  I don't know if this is the root cause of your problem or not, but
> since it mentions it in your dmesg it might be worth a look.  There was a
> BIOS upgrade that fixed it.  Both NICs are working properly on my machine.
>
> -Scott
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu>
>
> > Hi,
> > I have two on board ethernet on Tyan  Thunder K8WE  (s2895).
> > It seems the forcedeth driver works fine.
> > But only for eth0. Eth1 doesn't show up...
> > I thought I might need to specifically reload the module a second time
> > with different options for the second port (like in /etc/modutils or so)
> > !?!?!????
> >
> > then I discovered an error message in dmesg:
> > <cut and paste from dmesg>
> > forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.48.
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LMAC] -> GSI 21 (level,
> > high) -> IRQ 18
> > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0a.0 to 64
> > eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 010f1:2895 bound to 0000:00:0a.0
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 19
> > GSI 19 sharing vector 0xC9 and IRQ 19
> > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:80:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNK3] -> GSI 19 (level,
> > high) -> IRQ 19
> > PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:80:0a.0 to 64
> > 0000:80:0a.0: Invalid Mac address detected: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > Please complain to your hardware vendor. Switching to a random MAC.
> > 0000:80:0a.0: open: Could not find a valid PHY.
> > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:80:0a.0 disabled
> > forcedeth: probe of 0000:80:0a.0 failed with error -12
> > Probing IDE interface ide0...
> > </cut and paste from dmesg>
> >
> > lspci shows that 0000:80:0a.0 should be my second NIC.
> >
> > Any idea what error -12 could mean ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Sebastian Haase