Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754653AbYJ0TvA (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:51:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754476AbYJ0Tui (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:50:38 -0400 Received: from proxima.lp0.eu ([85.158.45.36]:35544 "EHLO proxima.lp0.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754291AbYJ0Tug (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:50:36 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=exim; d=fire.lp0.eu; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=Xi8SG6zaNuEYOY2u5/bGrDslH1JjNFIOj8Dvs0/gnUuhjIgn1O9MwwWBcPsuBwWxCEER/DsWg3kT7Cc3VhgeVi5YHyh88LkeExxw5H9ohJAHz9ureCwMro1swWlJ6gKj; Message-ID: <49061B7E.6050409@simon.arlott.org.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:50:22 +0000 From: Simon Arlott User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080928) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Krzysztof Halasa CC: Jiri Slaby , Francois Romieu , Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev , Edward Hsu , Ivan Vecera Subject: Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken References: <490380C8.6070003@simon.arlott.org.uk> <4903947A.3060206@gmail.com> <20081025223443.GA30913@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> <490448B0.8050307@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1944 Lines: 40 On 26/10/08 12:52, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Jiri Slaby writes: > >> However I may have a hw failure or some bug overwrote my eeprom, I see this >> in current mmotm: >> r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A disabled >> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded >> r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 >> r8169 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 >> r8169: mac_version = 0x0c >> r8169 0000:06:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X >> r8169: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:00:00:00:00:00 >> eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc200042b0000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 38000000 > > I think we need drivers or maybe some tool to save contents of those > little EEPROM / flash NVM configuration chips before it's too late. > First the ICH* e1000e corruption and now GbE RTL. With the reverted patch my MAC addresses are still broken: [ 1.527660] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 1.533421] r8169 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [ 1.541743] r8169 0000:00:09.0: PCI: Disallowing DAC for device [ 1.547799] r8169 0000:00:09.0: no PCI Express capability [ 1.554519] eth0: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0xbf6f8000, 00:00:00:00:25:c2, XID 18000000 IRQ 10 [ 1.563480] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded [ 1.570525] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11 [ 1.576363] r8169 0000:00:0b.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [ 1.584597] r8169 0000:00:0b.0: PCI: Disallowing DAC for device [ 1.590651] r8169 0000:00:0b.0: no PCI Express capability [ 1.596659] eth1: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0xbf6fc000, 00:00:00:00:25:c3, XID 18000000 IRQ 11 -- Simon Arlott -- 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/