Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list netdev); Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:55:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from xi.wantstofly.org (alephnull.demon.nl [212.238.201.82]) by oss.sgi.com (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2B8svnX010632 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:54:59 -0800 Received: by xi.wantstofly.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 9D3A22B0EC; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:54:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:54:56 +0100 From: Lennert Buytenhek To: Ben Greear Cc: Jon Mason , Ganesh Venkatesan , "netdev@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: ethtool -d no longer works for e1000 Message-ID: <20050311085456.GA3253@xi.wantstofly.org> References: <422F6C37.8090202@candelatech.com> <5fc59ff3050309140910f3e492@mail.gmail.com> <422F822D.9010707@candelatech.com> <200503091713.55454.jdmason@us.ibm.com> <422F8737.7050002@candelatech.com> <422F89CB.2070705@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <422F89CB.2070705@candelatech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/760/Wed Mar 9 09:12:01 2005 on oss.sgi.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-archive-position: 2906 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com X-original-sender: buytenh@wantstofly.org Precedence: bulk X-list: netdev Content-Length: 1108 Lines: 38 On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:42:03PM -0800, Ben Greear wrote: > >>I don't see this problem at all on my 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 kernel (Athlon64 > >>proc). > > > >I think I see the problem. ethtool -d eth0 works for me, > >but ethtool -d eth1 does not, even with both are e1000 > >NICs. It appears it cannot handle reading the second NIC for > >some reason? > > Errr, my bad. The problem is more that the dual-port pro/1000 NICs > don't seem to work, but the built-in e1000s do. > > The chipset that does not work correctly is: 82546GB > > The NICs with chipset: 82541EI seem to work just fine. "Me too." Works fine: 82540EM (SE7505VB2 on-board e1000) Doesn't work: 82546GB (dual port e1000 server NIC) [root@phi ~]# uname -a Linux phi.wantstofly.org 2.6.10-1.766_FC3smp #1 SMP Wed Feb 9 23:21:37 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@phi ~]# ethtool -d eth1 Cannot dump registers: Success [root@phi ~]# ethtool -d eth2 Cannot dump registers: Success [root@phi ~]# ethtool -d eth3 | head -3 MAC Registers ------------- 0x00000: CTRL (Device control register) 0x003C0249 Nothing appears in syslog. --L