Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters working !

[Robert Morris]

Are you unloading e1000 while click is loaded into the kernel?  If so,
does the Click configuration refer (w/ To, From, or PollDevice) to the
e1000 device?

> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 18:06:46 +0200
> From: Brecht Vermeulen <brecht.vermeulen at rug.ac.be>
> To: click at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu
> Cc: Benjie Chen <benjie at amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
> Subject: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters working !
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> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> our Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters are finally working with
> Click !
> 
> There is a very strict initialisation series needed :
> 
> -boot
> -install the e1000.o module out of the click source code
> -ifconfig up the interfaces
> -install click configuration
> 
> seems logical, but the following problems can occur :
> 
> 1) if you unload the e1000 module, there is a kernel oops, after which
> you have to reboot the machine or otherwise it will not work (this
> happens both with the click e1000.o and the Intel e1000.o, the latter I
> can't check anymore as the version 3.0.10 causes a kernel panic after
> the first ping).
> --> so if you test and load and unload the module, it will not work...
> Do you see these same kernel oopses ?
> 
> 2) we have no Intel CPU, so in the Makefile, we had to remove
> -DHAVE_INTEL_CPU for the e1000 driver, otherwise, yes, a kernel oops.
> 
> 3) Our machine was booted every time by a working e1000.o driver from
> Intel (a previous version) which I unloaded to load the click one, and
> of course each time a kernel oops...
> 
> sorry for all the noise (especially to Benjie),
> maybe this info can be added in a README file in the e1000 dir ? (or of
> course, fix the unloading :-) if you can reproduce it).
> 
> best regards,
> Brecht