Re: GNIC help please

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Silicon Jesus wrote:

> I'm currently running a Yellowfin GNIC (Packet Engines) card in my main 
> server using a Serverworks chipset and with the card in a 64 bit PCI 
> slot.  The NIC is linked into a D-link DES-3225G switch with a fiber 
> gigabit module in slot 2.  It seems as though the card does not work at 
> all unless I dump it into promiscuous mode with an ifconfig eth0 
> promisc at startup.
...
> Could anyone please tell me if this is caused by the current driver 
> included in kernel version 2.4.22 or if it may be an issue of me 
> incorrectly configuring the switch.

What version of the yellowfin chip are you using?
You can use 'lspci -v' to find this number.

What does the driver report when the card is detected?

It sounds as if someone modified the driver to remove the errata
correction for the receive filter.

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