Re: can't run two acenics in the same machine??

From: Steve Mickeler <steve@neptune.ca>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can't run two acenics in the same machine??
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:49:50 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209281644510.12634-100000@triton.neptune.on.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D951E46.5070402@candelatech.com>

I've got 4 3com 3c985 acenic based chips running in a box without any
probs.

00:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15
        Memory at febfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

--
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 4
        Memory at efffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

01:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 11
        Memory at efff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

--
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 4
        Memory at edffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

I've also got 3 tigon3 nics running in another box without any probs.

01:02.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15
        Memory at efff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
--
01:03.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 5
        Memory at effe0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
--
02:04.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15
        Memory at edff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Ben Greear wrote:

> Since the e1000 keeps scribbling over my memory (it appears), I tried
> to tie-break with two NetGear GA 620 nics.
>
> Well, it only finds one!!
>
> In the meantime, I hear that tigonIII is a reasonably good performer.
> Anyone suggest a NIC based on this chipset that is well supported?
>
>  From dmesg:
>
> acenic.c: v0.92 08/05/2002  Jes Sorensen, linux-acenic@SunSITE.dk
>                              http://home.cern.ch/~jes/gige/acenic.html
> eth2: NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf4000000, irq 10
>    Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:a0:cc:73:37:3a
>    PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 64 clks
>    Disabling PCI memory write and invalidate
> eth2: Firmware NOT running!
> eth2: NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf4004000, irq 9
>    Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:a0:cc:73:35:d6
>    PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 64 clks
>    Disabling PCI memory write and invalidate
> eth2: Firmware up and running
>
> from lspci -v:
>
>
> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Netgear GA620 (rev 01)
>          Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 0001
>          Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>          Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>          Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 10
>          Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>          Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Netgear GA620 (rev 01)
>          Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 0001
>          Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>          Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>          Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 10
>          Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
>          Region 0: Memory at f4004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
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