From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org>
To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
Cc: Mirko Lindner <mlindner@syskonnect.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test3+sk98lin driver with hardware bug make eth unusable
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:35:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1061663721.13460.5.camel@nosferatu.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308121440.50395.gallir@uib.es>
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On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 14:40, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 August 2003 14:01, Martin Schlemmer shaped the electrons to
> shout:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:01, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> > > I've already reported this problem to syskonnect few weeks ago (without
> > > success as I see).
> > >
> > > There is a ASIC bug in several popular motherboards (including ASUS ones)
> > > related to TX hardware checksum.
> > >
> > > For packets smaller that 56 bytes (payload), as UDP dns queries, the asic
> > > generates a bad checksum making the drivers unusable for "normal"
> > > Internet usage:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > The only solution is to comment out
> > > #define USE_SK_TX_CHECKSUM
> > > in skge.c
> >
> > Known issue.
> >
> > Mirko will have a look as soon as he have time.
>
> Thanks, I just sent a Kconfig patch as a workaround:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/8/12/83
>
Should work fine with version 6.16 of the driver (does so
here at least with a P4C800):
http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/zip/linux/sk98lin_2.6.0-test3_patch.gz
Cheers,
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Martin Schlemmer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-23 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-12 11:01 2.6.0-test3+sk98lin driver with hardware bug make eth unusable Ricardo Galli
2003-08-12 12:01 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-12 12:40 ` Ricardo Galli
2003-08-23 18:35 ` Martin Schlemmer [this message]
2003-08-24 12:27 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-08-28 10:24 ` [PATCH 2.6.0-test4][sk98lin] sk98lin " Mirko Lindner
2003-08-28 10:39 ` Martin Schlemmer
2003-09-04 21:55 ` Martin Schlemmer
2008-09-05 8:26 ` Mirko Lindner
2003-08-24 16:28 ` 2.6.0-test3+sk98lin " Ricardo Galli
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