Re: forcedeth and kernel 2.6.5 has "no link"

[Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Wong wrote:

> Under kernel 2.6.4, ethtool reports:
>
> Settings for eth0:
>        Link detected: yes
>
> This is with forcedeth 0.23
>
> Under kernel 2.6.5, ethtool reports:
>
> Settings for eth0:
>        Supports Wake-on: g
>        Wake-on: d
>        Link detected: no
>
> This is with forcedeth 0.25
>  
Odd. I'm not aware of any changes that might cause that difference. I'll 
check the diff.

> I had submitted the bugzilla id 2283.  2496 is something that I am
> experiencing too.
>  
Could you try the attached patch?


--
   Manfred

--- 2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c 2004-04-10 09:52:45.000000000 +0200
+++ build-2.6/drivers/net/forcedeth.c   2004-04-13 18:58:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -1263,6 +1263,14 @@
                                dev->name, id1, id2, i);
                np->phyaddr = i;
 
+               if (id1 == 0x0015 && (id2 &0xfff0) == 0xf440) {
+                       printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: open: Found ICS, applying 
workaround.\n", dev->name);
+                       /* workaround for ICS1893 PHY */
+                       mii_rw(dev, i, 0x0018, 0xD200);
+                       set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
+                       schedule_timeout(HZ);
+               }
+
                spin_lock_irq(&np->lock);
                nv_update_linkspeed(dev);
                spin_unlock_irq(&np->lock);