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Re: G3 B/W fiber card blues



Are you running a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?  Sarge does have a 2.6 kernel avaiable I would try that first before anything else.

Ananda

On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:57:23 -0600
Dan Page <danmanfu@bradcowisp.com> wrote:

> Hello.  I've just joined this list so I apologize if this issue has been
> addressed:
> 
> I've installed Debian sarge on a Blue and white G3.  This box is planned
> to be used as a DNS resolver for our network. I got DJB DNS set up and
> working like a champ, my problem lies in the network card.  We use
> gigabit fiber for our core network and I chose this model because it has
> the 64 bit pci bus that most giga fiber cards use.  I installed a Intel
> gigabit card installed.  The e1000.0 module that this card requires  is
> present in the kernel but for some reason it doesn't load.  I don't know
> if its related but the drivers for the USB and Firewire don't load
> properly either.   here is an except from the dmesg log
> 
> ieee1394: SelfIDs failed monotony check with 22/0
> ieee1394: Error in SelfID stage, resetting
> pcilynx0: resetting bus (long bus reset) on request
> pcilynx0: bus reset interrupt
> pcilynx0: SelfID process finished (phyid 0, root)
> pcilynx0: SelfID packet 0x568c7f80 rcvd
> ieee1394: SelfIDs failed monotony check with 22/0
> 
> this repeats about 50 times then:
> 
> ieee1394: Stopping out-of-control reset loop
> ieee1394: Warning - topology map and speed map will not be valid
> pcilynx0: invalid transaction code
> ieee1394: got invalid ack 254 from node 65535 (tcode 4)
> ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000 compliant, resetting...
> ieee1394: Stopping reset loop for IRM sanity
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any insite.
> 
> Dan 
> 
> 
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