Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-02-07 Thread Philip Armstrong
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 02:53:19AM -0700, Gordon Farquharson wrote: On Jan 27, 2008 12:07 PM, Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first paragraph contained the good news. The bad news is that although Krzysztof's driver is works well, udev does not

Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-02-07 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Philip On Feb 7, 2008 1:45 AM, Philip Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This problem is now fixed. 2.6.24-4 contains a change to the Ethernet driver which allows it to be loaded by udev. Do you mean 2.6.24-3 ? Yup, 2.6.24-3 is correct. When I made the change, there was some confusion in

Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-02-05 Thread Kevin Price
Hi Gordon! Gordon Farquharson schrieb: Let me know if you find discover any problems with the driver. I have tested it a bit, but certainly not for all situations. The GPL ethernet driver in debian's 2.6.24-2 is working very well for me. iperf shows 31.1 Mbits/sec. No errors for me until now.

Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-02-03 Thread Kevin Price
Hi, Gordon Farquharson schrieb: The first paragraph contained the good news. Thanks a lot for warning us. This problem is now fixed. 2.6.24-4 contains a change to the Ethernet driver which allows it to be loaded by udev. For me 2.6.24-2 from today's sid runs fine with the line ixp4xx-eth in

Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-02-03 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Kevin On Feb 3, 2008 4:14 PM, Kevin Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me 2.6.24-2 from today's sid runs fine with the line ixp4xx-eth in /etc/modules and an according rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules . Adding the module to /etc/modules will work, and I even considered

Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-02-02 Thread Gordon Farquharson
On Jan 27, 2008 12:07 PM, Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first paragraph contained the good news. The bad news is that although Krzysztof's driver is works well, udev does not load the driver automatically. This means that you should *not* run a 2.6.24 This problem is now

State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-01-27 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi All For the arm/ixp4xx Debian 2.6.24 kernel (used on the Linksys NSLU2), I switched to Krzysztof Hasala's Ethernet driver. I did this because 2.6.25 will definitely contain the Krzysztof's support for the IXP4xx network processor engine and hardware queue manager, and should contain the NSLU2

Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-01-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Gordon Farquharson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-27 12:07]: The first paragraph contained the good news. The bad news is that although Krzysztof's driver is works well, udev does not load the driver automatically. This means that you should *not* run a 2.6.24 kernel on your NSLU2 unless you

Re: State of the arm/ixp4xx 2.6.24 kernel (important if you run Debian on an NSLU2)

2008-01-27 Thread Rod Whitby
Gordon Farquharson wrote: For the arm/ixp4xx Debian 2.6.24 kernel (used on the Linksys NSLU2), I switched to Krzysztof Hasala's Ethernet driver. The first paragraph contained the good news. The bad news is that although Krzysztof's driver is works well, udev does not load the driver