DM9102A & Netra X1 (Was Re: Netra X1 boot getting closer)
Good news I now have the network working. I'm seeing a number of
transmit timeouts (see below) but don't seem to be losing packets.
I found that as well as clearing bit 21 in csr0 that I also had to
clear bit 24. That makes the csr0 assignment
static int csr0 = 0x00800000 | 0x9000
I suspect that the timeouts that I'm seeing probably have something to
do with other dm9102A/pci effects. I will keep trying differing
settings to see what effects they have.
As for the timeouts I'm seeing
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1 transmit timed out
Whilst doing pings I get this message around 8 times a
minute. Sometimes I see a number of pings sitting waiting to go and
then suddenly I get a flurry of them (maybe up to 15 seconds late). I
think that this is consistent with the transmit timeouts.
Richard
P.S. This is running 2.4.6-pre7 or thereabouts. I didn't need to go
back to earlier versions to get the network errors removed. I guess
that I ought to update to current cvs now that I seem to be making
definite progress.
Richard Mortimer writes:
> Ben Collins writes:
> > On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 12:14:49AM +0100, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> > > We may be able to scrap the dmfe.c idea and keep with tulip. I did a
> > > bit of looking into why I was seeing pci errors with the tulip
> > > driver. After a bit of scratching around and a bit of a helpful
> > > suggestion from a colleague it seems that the dm9102a chip has a bit
> > > of a problem with Memory Read Multiple pci transactions (That is CSR0
> > > bit 21). If the MRM bit is cleared the pci errors go away and the chip
> > > starts to act a bit more reasonably.
> >
> > This sounds an awful lot like the problems I am having with tulip on my
> > g4, so it may not be an X1 issue. I had to back down to a version from
> > around 2.4.[34]. Maybe you could try copying the tulip directory from
> > that kernel version to 2.4.7, apply your patch and see how that works?
>
> I tried that and got the same result. Do you think it might be worth
> trying 2.4.[34] on the X1 (with hand crafted patches to get the
> machine to run at all?).
>
> Richard
>
> --
> Richard Mortimer - richm@oldelvet dot netscapeonline dot co dot uk
>
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