Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268529AbUIGS4z (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:56:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268372AbUIGShI (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:37:08 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]:45489 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268506AbUIGSef (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:34:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:33:32 -0500 From: Jake Moilanen To: Roland Dreier Cc: "David S. Miller" , Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM, plars@linuxtestproject.org, Brian.Somers@Sun.COM, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TG3 doesn't work in kernel 2.4.27 (David S. Miller) Message-Id: <20040907133332.4ceb3b5a@localhost> In-Reply-To: <52ekljq6l2.fsf@topspin.com> References: <20040816110000.1120.31256.Mailman@lists.us.dell.com> <200408162049.FFF09413.8592816B@anet.ne.jp> <20040816143824.15238e42.davem@redhat.com> <412CD101.4050406@sun.com> <20040825120831.55a20c57.davem@redhat.com> <412CF0E9.2010903@sun.com> <20040825175805.6807014c.davem@redhat.com> <412DC055.4070401@sun.com> <20040830161126.585a6b62.davem@davemloft.net> <1094238777.9913.278.camel@plars.austin.ibm.com> <4138C3DD.1060005@sun.com> <52acw7rtrw.fsf@topspin.com> <20040903133059.483e98a0.davem@davemloft.net> <52ekljq6l2.fsf@topspin.com> Organization: LTC X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 24 > Setting up network interfaces: > lo > lo IP address: 127.0.0.1/8 done > dummy0 > dummy0 No configuration found for dummy0 unused > eth0 device: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5 > system> > system> console -T system:blade[11] > SOL is not ready Whenever an adapter reset is done (eg ifconfig up) on the same adapter that SoL is using, you'll lose SoL. SoL usually comes back, although I've not had much luck ever since the Sun auto negotiation patch went in. One fix/workaround to not losing your SoL connection is having the network go only over eth1 (assuming you have two switch modules). Thanks, Jake - 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/