[3127] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Case 254686: GX150 autonegotiate problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Wed Feb 6 17:18:41 2002
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 17:18:37 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200202062218.RAA16583@brad-majors.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
CC: release-team@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[3123] in Release_7.7_team"
[ dropped vortex@scyld.com from headers for now ]
>> I have charged the my Linux Platform lead, Andrew Boardman, with doing
>> the work to get the candidate 3c59x.o modules compiled for testing. (I
>> tried myself but missed some bit of lore and got no working module.
This got thrown at me and I didn't duck fast enough. I built a
variety of kernel modules today, using 2.49-21 because that's what my
crash and burn machine was running. For the record, to get a useful
build:
install the kernel source RPM
cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-21
make oldconfig
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
make modules
The new module will then be drivers/net/3c59x.o.
The results of today's experimentation:
- Building the driver out of a vanilla redhat kernel tree results in
something that doesn't negotiate correctly and is slow.
- Applying the patch in release-team[3117] to the redhat kernel tree
results in something that still claims to negotiate a 10Mbps half
duplex connection, but ftps Bill's 3MB file quickly.
- Merging the most recent kernel.org driver + the patch in
release-team[3117] gives the same results as above.
All of this testing was performed on gorf, and I still have all three
sets of modules around.
It's unclear to me what the next step in this is, so I'll leave it to
Bill.
Garry
