Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267851AbUIJTlu (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:41:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267830AbUIJTlu (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:41:50 -0400 Received: from umhlanga.stratnet.net ([12.162.17.40]:51963 "EHLO umhlanga.STRATNET.NET") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267851AbUIJTkH (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:40:07 -0400 To: Brian Somers Cc: "David S. Miller" , Michael.Waychison@sun.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: TG3 doesn't work in kernel 2.4.27 (David S. Miller) X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information 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> <20040826123730.375ce5d2.davem@redhat.com> <41419F82.10109@sun.com> From: Roland Dreier Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:40:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: <41419F82.10109@sun.com> (Brian Somers's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:35:14 +0100") Message-ID: <52r7p9dib0.fsf@topspin.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Sep 2004 19:40:03.0429 (UTC) FILETIME=[F796A150:01C4976D] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1036 Lines: 23 Brian> The problem seems to be that autoneg is disabled on the IBM Brian> switches. After disabling autoneg on the Sun shelf Brian> switches, I see the problem. This patch fixes things by Brian> reverting to sw autoneg which defaults to a Brian> 1000Mbps/full-duplex link but with no flow control when it Brian> fails (IBM should really have autoneg enabled!) - I'd Brian> appreciate it if someone could test this against an IBM Brian> blade. Yes, 2.6.8.1 with this patch works for me on a JS20. There is a pause of maybe 20 seconds when the interface is brough up (while hardware autoneg times out?) and then the network comes up (and serial-over-lan recovers). Unfortunately this patch doesn't apply to the latest bk (3.9) tg3 driver. Thanks, Roland - 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/