Pierre Patino wrote:

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.

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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)

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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