[Soekris] Linux doesn't recognize alle ethernet ports on net5501+lan1641

Mike Chirico mchirico at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 20:29:10 UTC 2008


On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 06:04:55PM +0100, Thorsten Mühlfelder wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:49:31 +0100
> Thorsten Mühlfelder <thenktor at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > As I can see now, eth1 and eth3 should have IRQ 7 but in /proc/interrupts there is only "mfgpt-timer" on this IRQ. I have to check out what this is.
> > 
> 
> CONFIG_GEODE_MFGPT_TIMER: 
>  This driver provides a clock event source based on the MFGPT timer(s)
>  in the CS5535 and CS5536 companion chip for the geode. MFGPTs have a
>  better resolution and max interval than the  generic PIT, and are
>  suitable for use as high-res timers.
> 
> I guess it's save to disable this in the kernel and I hope it works afterwards.

Here's the full config that I use.

http://chirico.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Documentation/Articles/soekris/config

Maybe that could be a staring point. Note the following:

# CONFIG_MGEODE_LX is not set


Regards,

Mike Chirico


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