From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751349AbWDFDZL (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:25:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751082AbWDFDZL (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:25:11 -0400 Received: from b3162.static.pacific.net.au ([203.143.238.98]:13740 "EHLO cust8446.nsw01.dataco.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751349AbWDFDZK (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 23:25:10 -0400 From: Nigel Cunningham Organization: Cyclades Corporation To: Prakash Punnoor Subject: Re: Issues with uli526x networking module Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 13:24:20 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel , jgarzik@pobox.com References: <200601260900.57951.prakash@punnoor.de> <200603290747.38402.ncunningham@cyclades.com> <200604041615.10749.prakash@punnoor.de> In-Reply-To: <200604041615.10749.prakash@punnoor.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1662805.vJAVub7DLN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200604061324.24499.ncunningham@cyclades.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1662805.vJAVub7DLN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi. On Wednesday 05 April 2006 00:15, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Am Dienstag M=C3=A4rz 28 2006 23:47 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > > Hi. > > > > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:30, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > > > Hi, I am just wondering whether you found out what the issue is with > > > the link problem. If you have some patch ready (even if it is hackish) > > > I would be happy to use it. > > > > > > Anyways, I know you are busy with swsusp2. ;-) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Yes, I do have a patch. It is hackish at the moment because as you've > > rightly guessed, I haven't gotten around to finishing it. It also doesn= 't > > work perfectly - I sometimes need to rmmod and insmod after booting a n= ew > > kernel to get the link to come up. But, apart from that, it works fine. > > Thx for sharing it. Unfortunately it doesn't help me. (I am not using > suspend or anything on that machine as it is supposed to be running 24/7.) > After pulling out the LAN cable and putting it back in. network is dead. > The driver (even unpatched) sees the cable is back in, but obviously > wrongly > reinitializes(?) the nic: Ie, kernel says after pluggin cable back in: > > uli526x: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex > > but network is dead. > > I have to do: > > ifconfig eth0 down > modprobe -r uli526x > modprobe uli526x > ifconfig eth0 up > dhclient > > And then it works again. Yes, this is what I was describing too. I need to learn more about how the= =20 link control works. Regards, Nigel --nextPart1662805.vJAVub7DLN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBENInoN0y+n1M3mo0RAg3QAKCSJcvEq4mGPpzLxg5d/icwvfULvQCgjUHt o5TjZqkA8cTVJv081uKeuUs= =8GY0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1662805.vJAVub7DLN--