On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 03:42:22AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > Is there other people having problems with recent 2.4 kernels > and the ethernet driver MACE? [...] > The behavior is a bit strange: > > Say I try to ping the pc from the mac. The mac (192.168.1.3) > tries to contact the pc (192.168.1.1), sending arp requests. > The pc sees the requests and correctly sends the replies. The > mac seems to ignore the replies (although I'm not exactly sure > of this) and repeats the arp requests ad infinitum. If I > interrupt ping, it tells that there was a 100% packet loss. > > At this point, after arp -n on the mac, the output shows that > the HWaddress field is "(incomplete)", but the pc shows > information about the mac: I've seen this exact same behavior with the MACE driver on a Mac Quadra 840AV (an m68k-based machine, using kernel 2.2.19). If I boot MacOS and use MacTCP to change the machine's IP address before booting Linux, somehow that gets the chip into a sane state. The IP address I set in the MacTCP control panel doesn't even have to be the same as the one Linux uses. I suspect some weird issue with initializing the hardware. Sorry, I don't have any advice for you, but this might point to an architecture-independent bug or misfeature in the MACE driver code. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you have the slightest bit of Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual integrity you cannot branden@debian.org | support the government. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- anonymous
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