From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753905Ab1BEXVJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2011 18:21:09 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:40311 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753853Ab1BEXVI (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2011 18:21:08 -0500 Subject: Re: Sun GEM PPC32 Bug? From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Matt Cc: ruediger.herbst@googlemail.com, David Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, geert@linux-m68k.org In-Reply-To: References: <1296852667.2349.804.camel@pasglop> <20110204.145508.59670453.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:20:54 +1100 Message-ID: <1296948054.2349.807.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 20:32 +0000, Matt wrote: > >Is there a special Kernel parameter (sysctl.conf), that makes it > >possible to use the Network. So how it is now I canŽt work with it. What > >can I do at the moment? > > please add others in the CC > > (take a look in the CC field of this mail and you'll know how to do it: > put the person you're answering in the "to" ("an") field :) ) Note that it's quite hard for me to figure out all the details of that problem since it seems to be scattered accross various email threads referring to vastly different kernel versions etc... Can you guys open a bug at kernel.org's bugzilla, CC me, and put relevant informations (dmesg logs, description of the problem, etc...) with a -current- upstream kernel please ? Cheers, Ben. > thanks ! > > there was a kind of temporary solution provided in : > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9002232&postcount=3 > > >linuxopjemac, thank you for referring to Ben. He replied and might look into it. > > >Meanwhile, I put the module reloading and interface restarting into a cron job that executes every hour: sudo crontab -e > > # m h dom mon dow command > 0 * * * * /usr/sbin/fix-sungem > > >and the script /usr/sbin/fix-sungem contains > > /sbin/ifdown eth0 && /sbin/rmmod sungem && /sbin/modprobe sungem && > /sbin/ifup eth0 > > Hope that helps somewhat > > Regards > > Matt > -- > 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/