sky2 still broken

TillEulenspiegel · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Noo Yawk

No change for me, unfortunately. The same problems still occur. I applied the patch on 2.6.20-gentoo.

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

Same here, it had frozen overnight.

Applied to 2.6.20-gentoo too.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:11 am Post subject:

shiver · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 10

I'll try it soon, I need a new kernel anyway since my netfilter config is messed up.

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

I'll try -git15 tonight.

Should I try it with or without the patch Bornio posted?

serge_g · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:39 pm Post subject:

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

Well, I'm running with 2.6.20-git15 - I'll report back either in a few days, or when it next dies, whichever comes first

TillEulenspiegel · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Noo Yawk

So far, so good.

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

Even further, still good:

TillEulenspiegel · n00b Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Noo Yawk

The failures still happen, but the driver now resets itself in five minutes. No lockups.

I believe this time (five minutes) can be adjusted by changing line 75 of sky2.c. I'm using:

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

I just looked in my dmesg, and you're right:

lonex · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject:

Since our ADSL modem is having issues and looses our Internet connection every few hours, I noted some new things concerning our problem with the sky2 NIC.
With my computer and its sky2 NIC, I'm connected to our router (gigabit). The router is also connected (of course) to the ADSL modem and routes to the Internet. So far so good.
Every time our modem looses its connection while I have some traffic to or from the Internet going on, I have to rmmod and then re-modprobe my sky2 module because I've completely lost my network connection. So I kind of assume that the problem with sky2 is somehow related to tcp-timeouts. Has anyone have seen similar things? Or can re-produce that?
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject:

confirmed!

I got the same problem with my belkin router, although it's a 100mbit-connection that should make no difference,
I can still login to it's lan / wan ip-number 192.168.2.1 but I got no internet-connection so I have to reboot it

1) the above mentioned is the first variant

2) the second variant is the following:
internet connection is completely lost & I have to rmmod & re-modprobe (as you wrote) the sky2 module, but this only happens on pretty high load, e.g. lots of uploading & then moderate downloading
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gabelhonz · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 12:27 pm Post subject:

Hi,

why do you guys do not take the official supported driver?
If you do so you have no problems any more!

Try this:

http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=153&pId=36

it's always up2date and works from kernel 2.4.20 to 2.6.latest.
Compile as module for all options to work!

regards

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ttuegel · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:49 pm Post subject:

I don't think the Marvell official driver supports their Yukon2 chipset, which is what we're all using. There is a driver for that chip from SysKonnect. However, work is finally progressing on the in-tree driver and should continue to progress, as long as people are testing the driver.

gabelhonz · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject:

My friend,

in this Driver Release ALL Yukon Devices are supported.
Yukon, Yukon2, YukonEC .......
Support for all NICS in one Driver !!

It doesnt matter if you download the sources from www.marvell.com or www.skd.de!!! It's the same.
Check the source code and you will see.

In this package sk98lin loads all SysKonnect and Marvell NICs! skge and sky2 are modified Driver from Mr. Hemminger.
YOU SHOULD USE THE OFFICAL DRIVER PACKAGE!!!

EDIT: Only with the official Driver you can use eg. RLMT on Dual Port Yukon2
in skge and sky2 you have only basic functionality of your device.

regards
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ttuegel · Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

I see, I didn't realize that the SK driver was available on Marvell's site now, too.

This is, of course, good for people who need a fully working driver _now_, either because they run a server, or don't have another NIC, but hopefully folks here will continue to test the in-kernel drivers.

l_bratch · Guru Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 494 Location: Jersey

I'm getting freeze again with the in kernel driver, this is the same version that seemed to have fixed the freezing by just disabling the card for a time, yet has gone back to freezing.

I'm going to give the Marvell one a try. (Because I have no other network card, but I'll try the in kernel one again every time I see a change to it in the changelog

)

Edit:
I'm not using the Marvell driver, I'll post back with how I get on...

Output from dmesg if anyone is interested:

lenk · Apprentice Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 211

Hi, I still get the occasional hang when downloading torrents. Its not too bad. Running 2.6.20-viper4.

There is a more pressing problem. Do anyone here run vmware workstation? I've got Windows XP running as a guest in vmware workstation. The problem is that I can copy files using winscp from the guest (winxp) to my gentoo box (SSHD) but I CAN'T copy files from the host (gentoo) to guest. The guest is bridged to the host nic. I've tried this exact same setup on my lappy and it works perfectly. I have to assume its the sky2 drivers fault. I'll get a cheapo nic tomorrow to confirm.

--update: I've tried the driver from marvell, same issue.
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lenk · Apprentice Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 211

Just bought a new 10/100 card and networking from host to guest in vmware bridged mode works. Its the sky2 driver that is broken.
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PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

Here's an ebuild for Marvell's driver. It works with kernels 2.6.20 upwards.

/usr/local/portage/net-misc/sk98lin/sk98lin-10.21.1.3.ebuild

Interimo · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2006 Posts: 40

I have a question about all of this. I have the revision 22 Marvell NIC (Don't have the exact specs, I'm on Windows as it's the only OS I have that can access the internet) on the Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 mobo. During the installer, I would frequently need to exit out of the chroot environment and run net-setup again. The install is done, and now there is no net-setup for me to run. I wouldn't think this was a problem, because dhcpcd sets up my network (or so I thought) and everything is supposedly in working order. ifconfig brings back good results, but I can't emerge anything at all. I have sky2 loaded, and removing + re-modprobing doesn't help either. I was thinking about using one of the drivers posted earlier, but since I can't download anything on Gentoo, is it possible to get it off my Windows partition and onto Gentoo's? I already have ntfs-3g installed, so read/write is no problem (I think..), but I don't know how I would go about getting it from one to the other and then proceeding with the install.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.