Re: [suse-amd64] SUSE 9.2 sk98lin severe problems with ASUS K8V SE Mobo

22 Nov 2004

Pierre Patino wrote:
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Jens Richter wrote:
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My problem was that the system just hangs every second for 100~200 msec.
Felt like the system had a severe hiccup. Adio and video was unusable.
Network connection was working though!
The patch is specifically for the corrupt ASUS EEPROM, don't know if
this make any difference on your ABIT mobo.
Regards, JR.
Marshall Kiam-Laine wrote:
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***hi  Jens,   do you think my problem with the Abit KV8
    might be the same ?   [net cards "configured", but still cant 
get out].
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jens Richter" 

To: 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 7:27 PM
Subject: [suse-amd64] SUSE 9.2 sk98lin severe problems with ASUS K8V 
SE Mobo
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Hi List,
this goes diretcly to SUSE !!!!
After patching my sk98lin driver with the follwing patch from the 
2.6.6-mm series i can actually use my system now.
THIS IS A REGRESSION COMPARED TO SUSE 9.1 !!!
PLEASE WAKE UP!!!
Include this patch in your next kernel patch!
Regards JR.
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From: Jeff Lightfoot 
The following patch to net/sk98lin/skvpd.c was put together by Marc 
Bouget,
mbouget at club-internet.fr.
This patch works around a corrupt EEPROM (VPD?) in the ASUS K8V 
Deluxe SE
motherboard ethernet chipset and allows the network driver to work
correctly.  We have written to ASUS and the sk98lin maintainers but 
have
not heard anything back.
---
25-akpm/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c |   11 +++++++++++
1 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c~sk98lin-buggy-vpd-workaround 
drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c

---  25/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c~sk98lin-buggy-vpd-workaround 
2004-04-26 22:02:06.353452640 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/sk98lin/skvpd.c 2004-04-26 
22:02:06.357452032 -0700
@@ -468,6 +468,17 @@ SK_IOC    IoC)    /* IO Context */
   pAC->vpd.vpd_size = vpd_size;
+    /* Asus K8V Se Deluxe bugfix. Correct VPD content */
+    /* MBo April 2004 */
+    if (((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x3f] == 0x38) &&
+        ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x40] == 0x3c) &&
+        ((unsigned char)pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x41] == 0x45)) {
+        printk("sk98lin: Asus mainboard with buggy VPD?"
+                "Correcting data.\n");
+        pAC->vpd.vpd_buf[0x40] = 0x38;
+    }
+
+
    /* find the end tag of the RO area */
    if (!(r = vpd_find_para(pAC, VPD_RV, &rp))) {
        SK_DBG_MSG(pAC, SK_DBGMOD_VPD, SK_DBGCAT_ERR | 
SK_DBGCAT_FATAL,
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I downloaded "install-7_09.tar.bz2"  from  www.syskonnect.de and could 
not get the onboard ethernet to work (SuSE 9.2, ASUS K8V SE Deluxe).
My other computer has an ASUS K8V Deluxe (not K8V SE Deluxe!) with 
SuSE 9.1 and the ethernet does work with this download.
Is this code chunk significant for continuous operation or startup 
only? (I haven't read the rest of the source)
...
...
Interestingly install-7_09.tar.bz2 contains also a fix (file is dated 
2004/08/11 14:24:49) for the ASUS EEPROM problem:
    /* Asus K8V Se Deluxe bugfix. Correct VPD content */
    i = 62;
    if(!strncmp(pAC->vpd.vpd_buf + i, " 8vpd.vpd_buf[i + 2] = '8';
    }

Anyway, my onboard ethernet just works fine (from syslog):
eth0: network connection up using port A
    speed:           100
    autonegotiation: yes
    duplex mode:     full
    flowctrl:        symmetric
    irq moderation:  disabled
    scatter-gather:  enabled
    rx-polling:      enabled

    