Re: [Xen-devel] desperate for help on netwrok of xen

[Steven Hand <Steven.Hand@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> e100 works fine in regular linux, and actually I tried in another machine
> with e100, just the same problem.
> 
> and the second machine with 2 NICs also works fine in regular machine, using
> eth1.
> 
> And here's the msg from dmesg and XendDmesg.py. This is for the machine only
> with e100.

[snip] 

> e100: selftest timeout
> e100: Failed to initialize, instance #0

so this looks like the culprit; we have noticed something similar 
with the 2.6 xenlinux code and not sure why it happens (only some
times it appears). Anyway can you comment out line 1283 in 
linux-2.4.26-xen0/drivers/net/e100/e100_main.c to ignore the failure 
and see if it in fact just works? 

viz. 

static unsigned char __devinit
e100_init(struct e100_private *bdp)
{
    u32 st_timeout = 0;
    u32 st_result = 0;
    e100_sw_init(bdp);

    if (!e100_selftest(bdp, &st_timeout, &st_result)) {
            if (st_timeout) {
            printk(KERN_ERR "e100: selftest timeout\n");
        } else {
            printk(KERN_ERR "e100: selftest failed. Results: %x\n",
                    st_result);
        }
#if 0
        return false;
#endif
    }
    else
        printk(KERN_DEBUG "e100: selftest OK.\n");

    /* read the MAC address from the eprom */
    e100_rd_eaddr(bdp);


.....


We can try to see if we can track it down over here (we have few 
e100 cards but should be able to manage). 



cheers,

S.