Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters

[Brecht Vermeulen]

Hi,

I've also tried to use Intel gbit cards with the latest cvs source
(yesterday with click-1.2.0 and the e1000 driver from cvs there was a
kernel oops), but now click gives the following errors :

May 30 09:50:02 helios100 kernel: line 13: While configuring
`PollDevice at 4 :: PollDevice':
May 30 09:50:02 helios100 kernel:   device `eth4' not pollable, use
FromDevice instead
May 30 09:50:02 helios100 kernel: line 26: While configuring
`PollDevice at 11 :: PollDevice':
May 30 09:50:02 helios100 kernel:   device `eth5' not pollable, use
FromDevice instead

Could this be caused by conflicting IRQs (there are 6 interfaces in the
system) ?:
(eth0-eth3 are a DLINK DFE-570 4 port card, with tulip driver and
polling)
eth4-5 are 2 gbit NICs with e1000 driver

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:C9:65:50
          inet addr:10.10.10.100  Bcast:10.10.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2479 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0x7000

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:C9:65:52
          inet addr:10.0.1.100  Bcast:10.0.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:328 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:577 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x7800
 
eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:C9:65:53
          inet addr:10.0.2.100  Bcast:10.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x7c00
 
eth4      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:47:71:45:EB
          inet addr:10.0.5.100  Bcast:10.0.5.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:193813 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:193813 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:11
 
eth5      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:03:47:71:58:EF
          inet addr:10.0.6.100  Bcast:10.0.6.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:193805 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:193805 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:10

If I use the Fromdevices instead, the machine freezes after a very short
time.

If I ifconfig eth2 down, so there are no conflicting IRQs (I don't know
if this is really enough, the card further generates interrupts ?), then
the machine freezes immediately when installing the config.

However the same e1000 module works perfectly under normal Linux.

Any clue for this or any things I could test ? (we've invested recently
in 4 gbit cards, approx. 3000$, so it would be very interesting to get
them working ;-) ).

best regards,
Brecht