Didn't Linus split the tulip driver into two again in 2.4.16 and there is an old tulip for older cards and a new tulip for newer cards? You might use the wrong tulip driver for your tulip card. I believe there should be three tulip drivers now in existence since there was already two drivers before the recent split. I wish somebody would write up a how-to on this because its bound to cause problems for people especially with Linksys cards. A little chart on which driver for which card with which tulip chipset might come in handy for a lot of folks. mk
From: Nadeem Hasan
To: feedback@suse.com CC: SuSE Linux List Subject: Re: [SLE] Latest SuSE official kernel Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 23:12:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from [202.58.118.7] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBDF3EAAF003740043154CA3A76070EEC0; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:12:32 -0800 Received: (qmail 12968 invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2001 04:11:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 12958 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2001 04:11:41 -0000 From suse-linux-e-return-85147-purpleshirt Wed, 26 Dec 2001 20:14:17 -0800 Mailing-List: contact suse-linux-e-help@suse.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes list-help: mailto:suse-linux-e-help@suse.com list-unsubscribe: mailto:suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com list-post: mailto:suse-linux-e@suse.com X-MIME-Notice: attachments may have been removed from this message X-Mailinglist: suse-linux-e Delivered-To: mailing list suse-linux-e@suse.com Sender: nhasan@nadmm.com Message-ID: <3C2A9F9D.E4E8D3B9@nadmm.com> Organization: Nadmm.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.10-4GB i686) X-Accept-Language: en References: <3C2A9388.60D3AD30@nadmm.com> UPDATE: =======
I am running:
k_deflt-2.4.10-25
Promise card is still UDMA33. I guess I was running Matel's test kernels when I got UDMA100 out of it. LinkSys NIC comes up 100baseTX-FD now. That seem to be working fine.
So, it seems Promise card is still the problem even after using ata66 flag.
Cheers, -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/
Nadeem Hasan wrote:
Hi,
I am running the latest SuSE official kernel:
k_deflt-2.4.16-22
I have the following two issues:
1. === I have a Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE card. I have been using "ide2=ata66" kernel to force it to UDMA100 mode with my UDMA100 (IBM 60GXP) hard disk. But ever since I installed this kernel, /dev/hde uses UDMA33 instead of UDMA100. Here is the relevent output from dmesg:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1828-0x182f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio PDC20268: chipset revision 1 PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later PDC20268: (U)DMA Burst Bit DISABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode. PDC20268: FORCING BURST BIT 0x30 -> 0x31 ACTIVE PDC20268: ATA-66/100 forced bit set (WARNING)!! ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1830-0x1837, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1838-0x183f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hde: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide2 at 0x1850-0x1857,0x1846 on irq 11 blk: queue c02f4f38, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hde: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=79780/16/63, (U)DMA hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, DMA
2. === I also have a LinkSys LNE100TX NIC connected to a LinkSys 10/100 switch. With the new kernel, the card always comes up as 100baseTx-HD and performs very poorly. There are lots of collisions and throughput is less than 100kbps. I have to force the card to 10baseTx-HD mode to get somewhat decent performance out of it. Here is the relevent output from dmesg:
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001) PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0b.0 eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0x1400, 00:A0:CC:32:59:21, IRQ 9.
For now, I am going back to the last official kernel release which worked ok for me. I would be happy to provide anymore info.
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Purple Shirt wrote:
Didn't Linus split the tulip driver into two again in 2.4.16 and there is an old tulip for older cards and a new tulip for newer cards? You might use the wrong tulip driver for your tulip card.
The split you are talking about happened in the 2.5 tree. I am using the newer tulip driver which has always worked for me....till the new kernel. -- Nadeem Hasan nhasan@nadmm.com http://www.nadmm.com/
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