Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

[Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk>]

Hi,

On 19/11/2012 14:45, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> sorry for the delay in response. Please see in line output below:
>
> On 11/15/2012 12:19 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> > On 15/11/2012 08:35, Michael Leicht wrote:
> > > How about looking into OBP Config? Something like "test net" ?
> > I was going to suggest trying using "watch-net-all". It relies on
> > there being traffic on the connected networks but can be useful. See
> > http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~ballisti/computer_topics/docs/U10svc/HTML/files/c0406.htm
>
> ok watch-net-all
> /pci@1d,700000/network@2,1
> Timed out waiting for Autonegotiation to complete
> Check cable and try again
> Link Down
>
> /pci@1d,700000/network@2
> 100 Mbps full duplex  Link up
> Looking for Ethernet Packets.
> '.' is a Good Packet.  'X' is a Bad Packet.
> Type any key to stop.
> ..................................................................
> /pci@1f,700000/network@2,1
> Timed out waiting for Autonegotiation to complete
> Check cable and try again
> Link Down
>
> /pci@1f,700000/network@2
> 100 Mbps full duplex  Link up
> Looking for Ethernet Packets.
> '.' is a Good Packet.  'X' is a Bad Packet.
> Type any key to stop.
> ........................................................................................................

So as I suspected eth0 and eth1 are the ports labelled net0 and net2

Did you try connecting the cable to those ports and testing. From what 
I've see and what others have said I suspect that will just work.


... snip ...


> > Additionally it looks like the 2nd network device on each PCI bus is
> > not getting
> > attached properly.
> >
> > Does
> >
> > dmesg | grep tg3
>
> [   39.625716] tg3.c:v3.116 (December 3, 2010)
> [   40.264438] tg3 0000:00:02.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev 2100]
> (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) MAC address 00:14:4f:5d:1e:7e
> [   40.401775] tg3 0000:00:02.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5704
> (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
> [   40.521950] tg3 0000:00:02.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0]
> ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
> [   40.626026] tg3 0000:00:02.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[763f0000]
> dma_mask[32-bit]


> [   41.439201] tg3 0000:00:02.1: BAR 2: can't reserve mem region
> [0x7f700000000-0x7f70000ffff]
> [   41.549032] tg3 0000:00:02.1: Cannot obtain PCI resources, aborting
> [   41.734027] tg3: probe of 0000:00:02.1 failed with error -16

This explains why the other two ports are not showing up.

A quick search shows up.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg200255.html

Not sure if that has been addressed in later kernel versions yet.

> [   42.014260] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev 2100]
> (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) MAC address 00:14:4f:5d:1e:80
> [   42.151574] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: attached PHY is 5704
> (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
> [   42.271747] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0]
> ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
> [   42.375821] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: dma_rwctrl[763f0000]
> dma_mask[32-bit]
> [   42.465517] tg3 0003:00:02.1: BAR 2: can't reserve mem region
> [0x7c700000000-0x7c70000ffff]
> [   42.575366] tg3 0003:00:02.1: Cannot obtain PCI resources, aborting
> [   42.658141] tg3: probe of 0003:00:02.1 failed with error -16

Same error here


> [   79.475629] tg3 0000:00:02.0: firmware: requesting tigon/tg3_tso.bin
> [   80.864032] tg3 0000:00:02.0: eth0: No firmware running
> [   82.524222] tg3 0000:00:02.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
> [   82.611142] tg3 0000:00:02.0: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and
> off for RX
>
>
> > or
> > dmesg | grep 0003:00:02
>
> [   30.442338] pci 0003:00:02.0: PME# supported from D3hot
> [   30.442354] pci 0003:00:02.0: PME# disabled
> [   30.442432] pci 0003:00:02.1: PME# supported from D3hot
> [   30.442445] pci 0003:00:02.1: PME# disabled
> [   41.808816] PCI: Enabling device: (0003:00:02.0), cmd 2
> [   42.014260] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: Tigon3 [partno(none) rev 2100]
> (PCI:66MHz:64-bit) MAC address 00:14:4f:5d:1e:80
> [   42.151574] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: attached PHY is 5704
> (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
> [   42.271747] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0]
> ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
> [   42.375821] tg3 0003:00:02.0: eth1: dma_rwctrl[763f0000]
> dma_mask[32-bit]
> [   42.465505] PCI: Enabling device: (0003:00:02.1), cmd 2
> [   42.465517] tg3 0003:00:02.1: BAR 2: can't reserve mem region
> [0x7c700000000-0x7c70000ffff]
> [   42.575366] tg3 0003:00:02.1: Cannot obtain PCI resources, aborting
> [   42.658141] tg3: probe of 0003:00:02.1 failed with error -16
>
> > produce anything relating to the other ports?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > > > lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
> > > >           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
> > > >           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
> > > >           RX packets:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> > > >           TX packets:114 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> > > >           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> > > >           RX bytes:9542 (9.3 KiB)  TX bytes:9542 (9.3 KiB)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have attached the prtconf file:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Kaya
> > > > <prtconf.txt>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Kaya