On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:03:25 +0200 (CEST) Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > > I (and a lot of other users) have been experiencing the frequent sky2 > > transmit timeout problem [1] (on 88E8053/Yukon2 EC gig hardware); this > > is a result of the embedded NIC controller locking up, and I've found > > that updating the firmware addresses this issue. I'm still seeing a > > previous and different issue [2] from time to time though (silicon > > bug?). > > Thanks for the info. I've been dealing with this problem for some long > time, hopefully sky driver from the latest kernels is able to recover > from such hangs, so it is not that critical problem now. > > > Marvell shipping broken firmware is completely unpublicised or > > acknowledged, however updated firmware is available through your > > motherboard vendor, so all hope it not lost after all... > > Unfortunately not through all vendors. :( Or maybe not *yet*? > > > My 8053/EC is using firmware 2.2 (previously 1.9) - you can check in > > DOS with 'yukondg.exe' from > > http://www.marvell.com/drivers/files/yukondg_v6.53.4.3.zip . > > Stephen, is it possible for sky2 driver to check and print the > firmware version? It is possible to dump and program eeprom from linux, and the version maybe buried in the VPD, but some hardware has non-functional VPD. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
