David, First thanks for the report. It looks like you have a number of different things going on.
First is that the only interface reporting that it has link up is eth6 which is one of the igb ports. All of the rest show "no link" including the Tigon3 NIC. Not getting link is most likely something to do with the switch or cabling. Have you tried plugging any of the ports in back to back to another system? Link errors almost never are driver related. Second, is that all of the interfaces (at least the Intel ones) are reporting having to use legacy interrupts. So something is wrong with how you are compiling your kernels or your system is configured in the BIOS to do this. Since this is showing up on multiple NICs this is most likely a system or kernel thing. Third, is you x16 port(s) are most likely graphics port(s) that may or may not be able to be used for things other than a graphics card. This is system dependent. Please look to the BIOS to see if the port configuration can be changed. Most do allow this but you need to change the settings. Forth, I'm a bit confused as to why you are trying to use an ioatdma driver that didn't come with the kernel. What ioatdma driver are you trying to use? The only ones (ioatdma and dca) that should be used are the ones that come with the particular kernel. Are you saying that these don't compile either? Please give us more information about how this is failing including the config files for F9 that you are using. This works for us without us doing anything to enable it. Cheers, John ----------------------------------------------------------- "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.", Benjamin Franklin 1755 >-----Original Message----- >From: David Lawless [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 8:49 PM >To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: [E1000-devel] IGB driver 1.2.44.9 problem > >We're trying to evaluate an Intel Pro VT Quad and are having >major problems coaxing it to work on an HP DL160 G5 (Seaburg >5400 chipset). RAM is 16GB and cpus are two E5430s. BIOS >is latest 8/22/08 revision. > >Have tried many combinations: > RHEL 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5) > Fedora 9 w/ Kernel.org (2.6.24.7) > Fedora 9 w/ Kernel.org (2.6.25.18) > Fedora 9 w/ Kernel.org (2.6.27) > Fedora 9 (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64) >With both the native device drivers and the Intel site >device drivers. > >In most cases the 'igb' devices seem to come up, but 'ethtool' shows > - > Speed: 1000Mb/s > Duplex: Full > - > Link detected: no > - >and they do not function. > >It does work under Fedora 9 (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.x86_64), but in >that case MSI interrupts are completely disabled and it falls >back to PCI-APIC interrupts. MSI-X interrupts are indicated for >RHEL 5.2 and the Kernel.org kernel, though as I said it does not >actually work. Couldn't successfully compile 'ioatdma.ko' for >2.6.26 and 2.6.27 kernels. Under those versions the results are >the same when using the native 'ioatdma.ko' and 'dca.ko'. > >In addition to the Quad-VT card, we have an Intel 10GbE dual CX4 >card in the other slot. In every case we're seeing the 'ixgbe' >driver claim that the bus width is x1 even though the slot is >x16. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >David > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
