New kernel blah

[RaXeT]

Why can't something be done short term to fix the Marvell gigabyte lan
module missing mess. The update from Syskonnect has been available since
early October 04. It was supported in earlier 2.6 kernels?

 

Anyone? And don't tell me someone has to add it upstream at kernel.org,
cause that's ridiculous.

 

RaXeT

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:07:24AM -0700, raxet wrote:
>  Why can't something be done short term to fix the Marvell
> gigabyte lan
>  module missing mess. The update from Syskonnect has been available since
>  early October 04. It was supported in earlier 2.6 kernels? 
Nope.

>  Anyone? And don't tell me someone has to add it upstream at
> kernel.org,
>  cause that's ridiculous. 
If it isn't good enough for upstream why is it good enough for base Fedora ?

[RaXeT]

Are you saying it wasn't supported in earlier kernels? It sure was. I have
had several systems with earlier Fedora 1 and Fedora 2 that work.

Beats me why kernel maintainer has failed to put it in.
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On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 10:07:24AM -0700, raxet wrote:
>  Why can't something be done short term to fix the Marvell
> gigabyte lan
>  module missing mess. The update from Syskonnect has been available since
>  early October 04. It was supported in earlier 2.6 kernels? 
Nope.

>  Anyone? And don't tell me someone has to add it upstream at
> kernel.org,
>  cause that's ridiculous. 
If it isn't good enough for upstream why is it good enough for base Fedora ?

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[Paul Iadonisi]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 14:40 -0700, raxet wrote:
>  Are you saying it wasn't supported in earlier kernels? It sure
> was. I have
>  had several systems with earlier Fedora 1 and Fedora 2 that work. 
  It would help if you were more specific.  Doing a grep -i for marvell
or syskonnect on FC1, FC2, and FC3 kernels reveals a lot of stuff, some
of which could be what your looking for.  Sometimes, module names do
change.  Could the via-velocity module be it?  Considering that there is
this code segment in via-veloctiy.c:

        case PHYID_MARVELL_1000:
        case PHYID_MARVELL_1000S:

# modinfo via-velocity
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/kernel/drivers/net/via-velocity.ko
author:         VIA Networking Technologies, Inc.
license:        GPL
description:    VIA Networking Velocity Family Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Driver
parm:           RxDescriptors:Number of receive descriptors
.
.
.
vermagic:       2.6.9-1.681_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
depends:        crc-ccitt
alias:          pci:v00001106d00003119sv*sd*bc*sc*i*


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[Alan Cox]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 02:40:17PM -0700, raxet wrote:
>  Are you saying it wasn't supported in earlier kernels? It sure
> was. I have
>  had several systems with earlier Fedora 1 and Fedora 2 that work. 
FC2 and FC3 are the same kernel currently so that would be rather remarkable.
In addition the newer syskonnect driver was released after FC2 came out and
we sadly lack time machines.

Do you have a syskonnect that works out of the box with FC2 but not FC3 ? If
so something else is up but we do need to debug it

sk98lin driver for Marvell Gigabit in kernel 2.6.9

[RaXeT]

So what we're discussing is that kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 haven't had a 
working driver sk98lin?

The module has never gone through any name change:
/lib/modules/2.6.9/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko

I have dowloaded the patch from SysKonnect
http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/d0102_driver.html

There are instructions for patching the sk98lin driver.

Why hasn't anyone gone upstream on this?

Who is the kernel maintainer for this?

Confused.

RaXeT

sk98lin driver for Marvell Gigabit in kernel 2.6.9

[seth vidal]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:55 -0700, maxer1 wrote:
>  So what we're discussing is that kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.9
> haven't had a 
>  working driver sk98lin?
>  
>  The module has never gone through any name change:
>  /lib/modules/2.6.9/kernel/drivers/net/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko
>  
>  I have dowloaded the patch from SysKonnect
>  http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/d0102_driver.html
>  
>  There are instructions for patching the sk98lin driver.
>  
>  Why hasn't anyone gone upstream on this?
>  
>  Who is the kernel maintainer for this?
>   
You should probably ask on lkml about it.

-sv

sk98lin driver for Marvell Gigabit in kernel 2.6.9

[Trond Eivind Glomsrød]

maxer1 wrote:

>  So what we're discussing is that kernel 2.6.8 and 2.6.9
> haven't had a 
>  working driver sk98lin? 
It does. Except for an initial stream of

>  eth0: -- ERROR --
>          Class:  internal Software error
>          Nr:  0x19e
>          Msg:  Vpd: Cannot read VPD keys 

it works well enough on my SN95G5. Better than the newer upstream 
driver, which seems to never stop spewing those messages.