Bug 105921

Summary: Marvell/Intel gigabit ethernet controller not automatically configured, missing module
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: James Helferty <jlh>
Component: KernelAssignee: Karsten Keil <karsten.keil>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: All   
URL: http://syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/ge.htm
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Description James Helferty 2005-08-19 19:42:50 UTC
The Beta 1 installer did not automatically configure the Marvell gigabit
ethernet controller on my Intel motherboard.  The sk98lin module should provide
support for this controller, but loading the module as shipped does not appear
to work.

Further research indicates that recent 2.6.12/13 kernels don't have full support
for this controller because the patches for it weren't accepted into the kernel.
 There is a kernel patch that fixes the problem available from:
http://syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk9elin.htm

According to the website, SuSE certified drivers are included in SuSE packages,
but apparently this isn't the case yet in 10.0.

"lspci -v" output:
0000:04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (rev 17)
          Subsystem: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3065
          Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177
          Memory at fe8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
          I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
          Expansion ROM at dfc00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
          Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
          Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
          Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/1 Enable-
          Capabilities: [e0] #10 [0011]
Comment 1 Olaf Kirch 2005-08-22 13:56:38 UTC
We currently do not have the sk98lin driver in 10.0. We are currently 
investigating if the new sky2 driver in mainline is sufficient for this 
hardware. 
 
Karsten, can you comment please? 
Comment 2 Karsten Keil 2005-08-22 14:11:40 UTC
It still seems that sky2.c has problems to handle real traffic. 
ping, ping -f work and copying of small files (150k) works, but copying 1.5M 
file never succeed and driver hang hard, no more trafic, only rmmod/modprobe 
cycle helps. 
I'm debugging this now, but I doubt that I'm ready for beta3. 
Question is, should I still add the version to B3 kernel, or wait until I have 
a fix for this. 
 
Comment 3 Olaf Kirch 2005-08-22 14:28:43 UTC
Yes, please include the current driver in the kernel source. 
Comment 4 Karsten Keil 2005-08-25 11:01:50 UTC
I'll handle all these Yukon2 problems in one bug. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98928 ***