sky2 still broken

venus_to_mars · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 40

I am experiencing a problem with my Marvell 88E8036 GbE card. During heavy load, the internet cuts off, and the only way I've found to fix it is to rmmod the sky2 module and then modprobe it again. I have read that this was supposed to be fixed with the 2.6.16 kernel, but I am using gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4 and no luck.

Anyone have any ideas?

allex87 · Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject:

I have had the same problem with 2.6.17 and IIRC 2.6.18rc... That was on my laptop running I think Fedora at the time. My only solution unfortunately was to install the binary driver provided by syskonnect (the sk98lin one). At least it works under heavy load until the bugs in the kernel driver are ironed out.

Alex.

venus_to_mars · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 40

When I modprobe sk98lin (module from the kernel) it doesn't let me bring eth0 up. Does the binary version work for more cards?

phatscum · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject:

sky2 is supposedly fixed in 2.6.18, but it didn't work for me.

I have to 'modprobe -r sky2 && modrpobe sky2' a couple times every day..

Edit: been stable with 2.6.17-gentoo-r5
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zxy · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:09 pm Post subject:

Sky2 sucks. I use 2.6.18-r4 kernel, but it is still broken. Sky2 turned my card into a 9.6k modem. :roll:

Skge does not work, sk98lin neither.

@phatscum: What do you mean with "been stable", does this mean that it works with gentoo-sources 2.6.17-r5.
Strange that it doesen't work with 2.6.18-r4 then.
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phatscum · Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:55 pm Post subject:

zxy · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:21 pm Post subject:

I get opera to freeze when i want to login to forums.gentoo.org (opera reloads pages in the background - that is why,maybe). Driver breaks down non-stop.
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phatscum · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:40 pm Post subject:

Err.. it still breaks down on me under heavy continuous load. I just haven't been downloading lately so that's why it has been "stable" for me, heh.
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject:

have you tried to compile it into the kernel ?

I'm using mm-sources 2.6.18-rc4-mm2

it works pretty fine for me here both on x86 and amd64

xr31Daisy · Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:49 pm Post subject:

I just tried 2.6.18-rc4 (but not mm), and I still get these :

recall · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Lithuania

Strange, but i am using sky2 with 2.6.17-gentoo-r4. And i have no problems since 2.6.14 or something

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:21 am Post subject:

@xr31Daisy:

which mainboard / network card do you have ? I think on my board it's an 8053 (p5w dh deluxe)
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xr31Daisy · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject:

Just like you mentionned: an Asus P5W DH Deluxe. With the 8053.
I'm using only the first network controller, and I've deactivated the second one in the Bios.

Also, with 2.6.16.19, any kind of monitoring crashed my network https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-488652-highlight-.html
I haven't relaunched gkrellm2 with the 2.6.18-rc4 kernel, I'll try that tonight.

I might try mm2 after all.
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject:

probably the 8053 chipset is too new ?
it runs fine for me on 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 & mm2

if your are looking for a newer bios: (in German), 1305 is the newest, and runs fine here
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xr31Daisy · Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:45 pm Post subject:

OK, I'm trying big copy through the network, on 2.6.18-rc4, with gkrellm2 running, it doesn't crash anymore.And the download rate is fine.
And the messages don't appear ... They might be only UT2004 related :twisted:

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xr31Daisy · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject:

The messages are still present, but the network works fine. Except for querying the UT2004 master server.
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zxy · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:

I have GigaByte motherboard with marvell and nvidia NICs.
To crash marvell (alone or in combination with the other card) try running amule and emerge --rsync at the same time. If amule is downloading a lot and you didn't sync for some time (there needs to be some transfer), it will crash. If not try some bittorent client with both of them. With me it crashes almost for sure.

I just tried to install original marvell drivers from the companies site, but I had no luck. Patched kernel wouldn't compile. I tried 2.6.17-beyond3, 2.6.18-rc4-viper1 and no-sources-2.6.18-rc4-no2. But on some other post a guy said that it worked for him with 2.6.16 kernel.
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funkmankey · Guru Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 304 Location: CH

same problem here, amd64 on an asus a8r4t, gentoo 2.6.17-r{1-7}. under network load (e.g. ktorrent) I get

zxy · Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject:

funkmankey thanks for the ethtool ... command. I just set it. I hope it works. I'm using marvell for local net connection and nvidia (forcedeth) net card for internet access. I hope it won't crash, as much as it did, with the new settings.

The fact is, that if I emerge --sync'ed with the other computer through marvell it crashed and I had to repeat the sync many times. (Heh - I have rsync mirror-proxy on my gateway - so I dont put my troubles in hand of official gentoo servers)

- and it goes fasssst

If the ethtool thing works, I'm gonna put it to local.start.

---- EDIT ----
For now it's holding. It even survived emerge --sync.
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zxy · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject:

Here is the output from the dmesg

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zxy · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:22 pm Post subject:

I'll post you dmesg. I cannot right now.
I tried sysconnect's driver patch, as you, but didn't work. I posted it here on the forums somhere. I tried 3 different kernels. 2.6.18 (no-sources, viper) and beyond3.
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phatscum · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:47 am Post subject:

2.6.18-gentoo

Still broken

(Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 19))
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warer · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Posts: 38

Its also broken in 2.6.18-rc6-mm2.

Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 22)