Additional info re Sparc network problems
I've just confirmed that the problems started with the changeover to
kernel 2.2.13 (and the new sunlance driver). Looking into my kern.log
file produced:
This is kernel 2.2.1:
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Linux version 2.2.1 (root@fatneck) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sun Feb 28 18:57:45 EST 1999
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: ARCH: SUN4M
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: TYPE: SPARCstation 4
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Ethernet address: 8:0:20:7d:7f:ff
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek (jj@ultra.linux.cz). Patching kernel for srmmu[Fujitsu Swift]/iommu
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: [0]: v[f0000000,f2800000](2800000) p[00000000]
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: [1]: v[f4000000,f47ad000](7ad000) p[04000000]
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: SRMMU: Compact physical memory. Using strightforward VA<->PA translations.
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Found CPU 0 <node=ffd4519c,mid=0>
... <snip> ...
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: sunlance.c:v1.11 27/Dec/97 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:7d:7f:ff
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: eth0: using auto-carrier-detection.
Nov 17 23:15:15 sparc kernel: Partition check:
... etc.
And this is kernel 2.2.13:
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Linux version 2.2.13 (root@blimpo) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Wed Nov 3 09:26:24 EST 1999
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: ARCH: SUN4M
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: TYPE: SPARCstation 4
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Ethernet address: 8:0:20:7d:7f:ff
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek (jj@ultra.linux.cz). Patching kernel for srmmu[Fujitsu Swift]/iommu
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: [0]: v[f0000000,f2800000](2800000) p[00000000]
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: [1]: v[f4000000,f47ad000](7ad000) p[04000000]
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: SRMMU: Compact physical memory. Using strightforward VA<->PA translations.
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Found CPU 0 <node=ffd4519c,mid=0>
... <snip> ...
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza (miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx)
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:7d:7f:ff
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: eth0: using auto-carrier-detection.
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Sending BOOTP and RARP requests............. timed out!
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: IP-Config: Auto-configuration of network failed.
Nov 18 23:44:54 sparc kernel: Partition check:
... etc.
Does this look like a driver bug to be reported?
--
Akor
akor@eternal.net
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