Message-ID: <4BD2B9FF0233D411B4AA0000F6D6617154AFEB@uk-exch01> From: Andrew Hooper <Andrew.Hooper@VITAL-NS.com> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:20:50 -0000 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors
Hi
The EtherExpress Pro 100 is off the shelf PC vender.
I used YaST2/Advanced Network Configuration which lets you select the module
to use and picked the eepro100 module. There is another module that is
picked automatically (eepro it think) which doesn't work so you have to
select eepro100.
MRTG is Multi Router Traffic Grapher name says it all, give it a go it's
free at www.mrtg.org.
As for the problem I was just kicking some ideas around, but I am sure that
SuSE uses Plug and Play for configuring the PCI cards, so if the Module
doesn't behave itself then who knows what errors can be put onto the cards
configuration.
Try the KDE control Center - Information menu, this can give an idea of who
has what interrupts/memory etc. you could see if there are any conflicts on
your system. But I don't think the info it provides is as complete as you
get out of the PC version.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R"
> <stuart@bh90210.net>@VITALNETSVC
> Sent: 14 February 2002 15:54
> To: Andrew Hooper; suse-sparc@suse.com
> Cc: 'Eric Weinstein'
> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors
>
> <<...OLE_Obj...>>
> Mr. Hooper:
>
> When you purchased the EtherExpress Pro 100 for the Sun, was it
> a special version of the card for the Sun, or was it just a stock
> EEPRO100 card as you would purchase from CompUSA or any other PC vendor
> for a PC?
>
> When you installed the card, what was involved to make it work
> with SuSE?
>
> What is MRTG?
>
> I doubt that the problem is a conflict between the SCSI DMA and
> the HME DMA, since prior to loading Linux, everything (under Solaris
> 2.6), worked fine. DMA is set in hardware (via jumpers, far as I know),
> so I am somewhat confused by why this error is now happening.
>
> Thanks for playing around with your machine, and trying to help
> us resolve this issue!
>
>
> Very Respectfully,
>
> Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG
> Beverly Hills, California
> VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit)
> stuart@bh90210.net
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> Sunday, January 13, 2002 4:38 AM
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hooper [mailto:Andrew.Hooper@VITAL-NS.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:59 AM
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors
>
> Hi
> I have a Sparc 5 Ultra with a happy meal and EtherExpress Pro 100, I
> have
> been following the thread and have been looking for similar errors in my
> message and warn log files. I have not seen any problems but I am not
> heavily loaded (I use MRTG). The Kernel is 2.4.14 supplied by SuSE 7.3
> and
> the modules are sunhme and eepro100.
> Perhaps the problem is with the SCSI module interfering with the sunhme
> module, i.e. not releasing in time for the sunhme module to process
> traffic
> or it is using the same DMA channel. My Sparc 5 doesn't have a SCSI card
> installed.
> What sort of load are you getting on the Ethernet port (i.e. bits per
> second) I may find time to load up my system with FTP traffic and see if
> I
> can hang it up, my system has not go into production yet, so if there is
> a
> problem with the happy meal I would like to fix it before I rely on the
> Sparc.
>
> Ps. Don't you think that Happy Meal is a dumb name for an Ethernet
> chipset.??
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: "IT3 Stuart Blake Tener, USNR-R"
> > <stuart@bh90210.net>@VITALNETSVC
> > Sent: 14 February 2002 07:14
> > To: 'Alvaro Figueroa'; suse-sparc@suse.com
> > Cc: 'Eric Weinstein'
> > Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors
> >
> > <<...OLE_Obj...>>
> > Mr. Figueroa:
> >
> > I am firstly not sure that Sun Happy Meal Ethernet support is in
> > fact compiled into the kernel or if it is as a module, I think it is
> > compiled in. So I am not sure how it could shut down the module
> (unload
> > it), if it is in fact compiled into the kernel!
> >
> > Now I am not saying that the Ethernet card is causing the system
> > to crash, I am just saying that the system is crashing, and there are
> > problems with the Ethernet card, and the SCSI driver.
> >
> > I do not mind compiling the Sun HME driver as a module, but
> > which of the modules is for the "Happy Meal" Ethernet? What is a
> "Happy
> > Meal" Ethernet adapter? I only know the HME (Hundred Megabit Ethernet)
> > on board card.
> >
> > Lastly, as I am saying we are using the latest kernel as issued
> > by SuSE (2.4.14). If SuSE has release 2.4.17 for SPARC, or the stock
> > kernel would run properly with a SPARC, then I am willing to compile
> and
> > test it.
> >
> >
> > Very Respectfully,
> >
> > Stuart Blake Tener, IT3 (E-4), USNR-R, N3GWG
> > Beverly Hills, California
> > VTU 1904G (Volunteer Training Unit)
> > stuart@bh90210.net
> > west coast: (310)-358-0202 P.O. Box 16043, Beverly Hills, CA
> 90209-2043
> > east coast: (215)-338-6005 P.O. Box 45859, Philadelphia, PA 19149-5859
> >
> > Telecopier: (419)-715-6073 fax to email gateway via www.efax.com (it's
> > free!)
> >
> > JOIN THE US NAVY RESERVE, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY, AND BENEFIT FROM IT ALL.
> >
> > Wednesday, February 13, 2002 11:09 PM
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alvaro Figueroa [mailto:fede2@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:04 PM
> > To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> > Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Happy Meal Errors
> >
> >
> > > a) I do not know what you mean by "reseting the chip", but if
> > > you are asking if we have power cycled the machine, yes we have, it
> > has
> > > had no effect on this issue
> >
> > Ok, lets say that the kernel modules has a bug and receives a
> malformed
> > intruction or a normal intruction but the module can't handle it
> > properly. But instead of crashing, the modules should try to shut down
> > the module and then turn it up again to try to keep working as if
> > nothing happend ;).
> >
> > So, you would notice that the kernel modules did reset properly the
> hme
> > card, because after the error (probably a couple of seconds later) the
> > card keeps on working properly.
> >
> > > c) We did try to compile a new kernel, but this was happening
> > > even when we used the stock kernel.
> >
> > You are telling me that it did happend with kernel 2.4.17, right?
> >
> > Well, one thing you could try so you don't have to power cycle the
> box,
> > is to compile the sunhme support as a module, and if it happens, you
> can
> > try to remove the modules and insert it back in.
> >
> > Please get back to me. If none of this works, you could have found a
> > kernel bug.
> >
> > --
> > Alvaro Figueroa
> >
> >
> >
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