Bugzilla – Bug 105921
Marvell/Intel gigabit ethernet controller not automatically configured, missing module
Last modified: 2005-08-25 11:01:50 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]
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?
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.
Yes, please include the current driver in the kernel source.
I'll handle all these Yukon2 problems in one bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 98928 ***