> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:37:41PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Dave Jones wrote:
> > > > I've just been playing with a model 2 OQO, which has an RTL8139.
> > > > It gets detected just fine, though it doesn't actually work..
> > > >
> > > > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8830000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, IRQ 18
> > > > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139'
> > > >
> > > > The null MAC address being one clue. Another oddity is that
> > > > ethtool reports that there's no link detected, even though there is.
> > > > (Enough for it to PXE boot a kernel from at least :)
> > > >
> > > > Futzing with the debug= modparam didn't yield anything extra at all.
> > > >
> > > > Any clues?
> > >
> > > Sounds like a broken EEPROM. Does supplying a MAC via ifconfig prior to
> > > 'ifconfig ... up' help?
> >
> > Ah. This sounds enlightening:
http://www.oqotalk.com/index.php/topic,1511.0.html
> > Seems a shame to have to choose PIO vs MMIO for a distro kernel though.
> > Would there be any objection to turning that into a modparam ?
> > (If we wanted to get really fancy, we could even quirk around it automatically
> > when we detect broken hardware).
>
> Something like this? :)
>
>
http://www.linux.sgi.com/archives/netdev/2004-11/msg00226.html
>
> It did not go upstream but it needed some init-time bug fixing, IIRC.
> Maybe akpm remembers more why my patch sucked... :)
