[SCore-users] problems with Netgear GA621

[Shinji Sumimoto]

Hi.

From: Steffen Loos <loos at rz.uni-potsdam.de>
Subject: Re: [SCore-users] problems with Netgear GA621
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:02:53 +0200 (MET DST)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0308251543430.3388-100000 at persius.rz.uni-potsdam.de>

loos> hi.
loos> 
loos> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Shinji Sumimoto wrote:
loos> 
loos> >
loos> > Could you check whether the GA621 is works well or not?
loos> >
loos> > The number of irq 0 is something wrong. The number 0 is for system timer.
loos> > Maybe the NIC does not work hardware interrupt.
loos> >
loos> > Could you send us the results of "cat /proc/interrupts" command.
loos> 
loos> [steffen at ophelia]# cat /proc/interrupts
loos> 	CPU0
loos>  0:  9805444	XT-PIC timer
loos>  1:     1004	XT-PIC keyboard
loos>  2:        0	XT-PIC cascade
loos>  3:  9230956	XT-PIC eth2
loos>  5:     9759	XT-PIC aic7xxx
loos>  7:   245407	XT-PIC eth1
loos>  8:        1	XT-PIC rtc
loos>  9:  1580244	XT-PIC eth0
loos> 10:       15	XT-PIC aic7xxx
loos> 12:       15	XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
loos> 14:        0	XT-PIC ide0
loos> NMI:       0
loos> ERR:       0
loos> 
loos> [The other both 100Mbit-devices work without any problems (normal or
loos> with trunking).]
loos> 
loos> The effect with the Interrupt Reaping-option could based on a feature of
loos> the driver called Interrupt-holdoff. My problem is I don't know how I can
loos> disable this. Maybe anyone with some experience of this can help.

Set the flag in /etc/init.d/pm_ethernet as follows:

INTERRUPT_REAPING=off

$ cat 
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#!/bin/sh
#
# pm_ethernet:  Starts the PM Ethernet driver
#
# Version:      @(#) /etc/rc.d/init.d/pm_ethernet 1.00
#
# Author:       Shinji Sumimoto (Real World Computing Partnership)
# chkconfig: 345 90 18
# description: PM Ethernet driver
# probe: true

IF=eth4
UNIT=0

INTERRUPT_REAPING=on
# INTERRUPT_REAPING=off

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# check module
module=`modprobe -l pm_ethernet_dev.o | grep -v Note:`

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
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Shinji.
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Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Labs