[KLUG Members] Odd eth problems.

[Adam Bultman]

Wow, an email from Alan Cox himself! Awesome!  Yeah, I found out that 
evidently that is what was going on .  I downloaded the fix for the 
FA311TX, compiled it in, and haven't looked back.  The odd part is the 
fact that the netgear problem didn't show it's face for the longest time, 
and I disable all power management in the BIOS, and kernel (does that even 
make sense??).

Anyway, it's working, and nicely, too.

adam


On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Peter Buxton wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:48:27AM -0500, Adam Bultman was only 
>    escaped alone to tell thee:
> 
> > I've found some info on the net regarding this problem.  And, lucky me, 
> > the fa311TX has the same problem as the fa310TX.  Super.  
> 
> Is this your problem:
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > When the call apm_bios_call_simple(APM_FUNC_SET_STATE, 0x100,
> > > APM_STATE_READY, &eax) is made, the PMEEN (PME enable) bit in the CCSR
> > > register on my FA311 mysteriously changes from 0 to 1, causing the
> > > card to stop processing
> >
> > The Linux driver set the power management of the card off. The BIOS
> > then rudely fiddled with it. If its not a laptop seriously consider
> > just turning off APM support. The Linux idle loop halts will do a fair
> > job of power saving anyway 
> 
> Thanks to everyone that has helped me with this problem (Netgear FA311
> dies when apm.c's set_power_state() is called to unblank screen, for
> instance when an X server exits or the monitor is awakened from
> APM-induced sleep). Since everyone has suggested work arounds, I'm going
> to assume it isn't worthwhile digging any deeper for causes.
> 
> 

-- 
Adam Bultman
adamb@glaven.org