R6040 network driver on MC Jr MX

[nicksoft]

Hi!
I have problems with MX Jr MX. I compiled kernel 2.6.35.7 with R6040
in it(not as a module). The problem is that I see this message
repeating each second in messages log:
"kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1"
I had the same experience with DX microclient (I think I tried 2.6.29,
but on console output, not in log).

The OS is CentOS 5.5. Does someone know how to turn off these messages
or better - is there a fix for the driver?

here is a part of the log:

Oct 27 13:18:16 mclive5 kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex,
lpa 0x45E1
Oct 27 13:18:47 mclive5 last message repeated 31 times
Oct 27 13:19:48 mclive5 last message repeated 61 times

[Alexei Colin]

> The problem is that I see this message
> repeating each second in messages log:
> "kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1"

Just for the sake of info: on JrMX with
r6040: RDC R6040 NAPI net driver,version 0.25 (20Aug2009) [
srcversion: 82B4AADE6DAA4C8F4200908 ] on 2.6.32-21-386 #32-Ubuntu SMP
I'm seeing only one instance of this message.

I'm glad that r6040 got brought up (and surprised it hasn't until
now), because at least the above cited version (and some previous
ones) is unstable for me -- *only under transmission load* it fails
with "transmit timed out, status %4.4x, PHY status ..." message and
kills network interface completely. Has anybody seen this? If I
remember correctly, ifdown/up brings the interface to life (I only
tried this a few times, since it's usually headless and I don't have a
monitor handy, so usually I ruthlessly hard-reset).

There are so few resources on this driver, and it is unclear whether
work is being done on it (majority changes in git where not driver
specific last time I checked). Perhaps, I should contact the
maintainer listed?

I'm also thinking of trying xlinux (it must have an older r6040 in it
-- maybe it's older but more stable?), but Ubuntu is so easy to deal
with and hence too hard to give up.

Regards,
alexei

[Nikolay Pelov]

Alexei Colin wrote:
> Just for the sake of info: on JrMX with
> r6040: RDC R6040 NAPI net driver,version 0.25 (20Aug2009) [
> srcversion: 82B4AADE6DAA4C8F4200908 ] on 2.6.32-21-386 #32-Ubuntu SMP
> I'm seeing only one instance of this message.
>

I don't know if it's related but my kernel is UP and yours is SMP.
I didn't have any problems with transmission. Maybe you should update
your kernel to latest version (not latest ubuntu version, but download
from kernel.org). but you'll have to compile it.
I don' think older versions of r6040 are more stable...