Re: can't run two acenics in the same machine??

Steve Mickeler (steve@neptune.ca)
Sat, 28 Sep 2002 16:49:50 -0400 (EDT)


I've got 4 3com 3c985 acenic based chips running in a box without any
probs.

00:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15
Memory at febfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

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01:02.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 4
        Memory at efffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

01:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01) Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 11 Memory at efff8000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

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02:04.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c985 1000BaseSX (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 9850:0001
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 4
        Memory at edffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]

I've also got 3 tigon3 nics running in another box without any probs.

01:02.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15) Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15 Memory at efff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000] Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

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01:03.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 5
        Memory at effe0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
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02:04.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation NetXtreme BCM5701 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 15)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C996-SX 1000BaseSX
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15
        Memory at edff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [40] #07 [0000]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Ben Greear wrote:

> Since the e1000 keeps scribbling over my memory (it appears), I tried > to tie-break with two NetGear GA 620 nics. > > Well, it only finds one!! > > In the meantime, I hear that tigonIII is a reasonably good performer. > Anyone suggest a NIC based on this chipset that is well supported? > > From dmesg: > > acenic.c: v0.92 08/05/2002 Jes Sorensen, linux-acenic@SunSITE.dk > http://home.cern.ch/~jes/gige/acenic.html > eth2: NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf4000000, irq 10 > Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:a0:cc:73:37:3a > PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 64 clks > Disabling PCI memory write and invalidate > eth2: Firmware NOT running! > eth2: NetGear GA620 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xf4004000, irq 9 > Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:a0:cc:73:35:d6 > PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 64 clks > Disabling PCI memory write and invalidate > eth2: Firmware up and running > > from lspci -v: > > > 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Netgear GA620 (rev 01) > Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 0001 > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 10 > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 > Region 0: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Netgear GA620 (rev 01) > Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device 0001 > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap- 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 64 (16000ns min), cache line size 10 > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 > Region 0: Memory at f4004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] > > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> > President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >

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