From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Asus K8N-VM Motherboard Ethernet Problem
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 18:54:47 +0100
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On Monday 29 May 2006 18:48, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
[snip irrelevant Other OS discussion]
>
> I can concur that the forcedeth is unreliable on nvidia based motherboards.
> I have a ethernet device that works with forcedeth.
> 0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
> 0000:00:0a.0 0680: 10de:0057 (rev a3)
>         Subsystem: 147b:1c12
>         Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 11
>         Memory at fe02f000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         I/O ports at fc00 [size=8]
>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>
> It works in that it can actually send and receive packets.
> The problems are:
> 1) one cannot rmmod the forcedeth module. Even after ifdown etc.
> 2) the machine hangs randomly.
> Before someone asks, the MB has no serial port, so no stack trace
> available. 3) The netconsole fails to function with it.

File a bug report. What kernel version did you last test?

I have that exact ethernet controller (CK804) and cannot reproduce any of the 
problems you have listed on 2.6.17-rc5.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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