Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263606AbUAYCmq (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:42:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263607AbUAYCmq (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:42:46 -0500 Received: from tekla.ing.umu.se ([130.239.117.80]:11216 "EHLO tekla.ing.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263606AbUAYCmo (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:42:44 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 03:42:38 +0100 From: Tomas Ogren To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Fried the onboard Broadcom 4401 network... Message-ID: <20040125024238.GA10424@ing.umu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-System: Linux tekla 2.4.24-rc1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1936 Lines: 46 Hello. I'm not exactly sure what caused this or if it's reproducable, but here's my story anyway. I have an ASUS A7V8X with onboard Broadcom 4401 (Rev 01) 10/100 and I've been running 2.4.x (2.4.21) for a long time now with Broadcoms bcm4400 driver (v2.0.2) which has worked just fine. Now I decided to try 2.6 and installed 2.6.2-rc1-bk2 with the b44 driver that comes with the kernel. While doing some tests I noticed that I got really crappy performance (3-4MB/s) while sending, but full throughput (~11MB/s) while receiving. So I figured that it could be the shipped driver.. Downloaded bcm4400 v3.0.7 which has 2.6 support and installed it. Didn't make stuff go faster. So I thought I'd boot into 2.4.25pre6 and see how it behaves under a 2.4 kernel with the latest bcm4400 driver. The 2.4.25pre6 I had compiled includes the b44 driver. I booted it up and then I got a bunch of the following: "eth0: b44: BUG! Timeout waiting for bit 80000000 of register 428 to clear." followed by: "eth0: Link is down." After that, I have not been able to get link (neither see it through Linux/WinXP or the physical LED). I have tried multiple cables and my laptop is perfectly happy with all of them, but the broadcom thingie seems not. The switch doesn't see link either. The actual chip seems to be alive, it responds to PCI stuff... it can be initialized and all but I can't get link. Not sure what you can do with this information, but I can probably not do anything more with this NIC at least.. CC me for any replies, please. /Tomas -- Tomas ?gren, stric@ing.umu.se, http://www.ing.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Ume? `- Sysadmin at {cs,ing,acc}.umu.se - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/