Topic: via rhinefet drivers sme 6.01 wanted

[hanscees]

Hi,

I am running  SME Server 6.0.1-01 on a via mini-itx board. kernell 2.4.20.18-7

All is fine, except for the on board via-rhine nic. It uses via-rhine.0 but is incredibly slow.

This is apparantly a known issue and a solution should be to use the via rhinefet driver.
see
http://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=https%3A//bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi%3Fbuglist%3D129304&ei=Iq37QqevIqDKQdTA6P8B

However, I do not have a compiler on my e-smith. The source is here:
http://www.viaembedded.com/product/2/3/EPIA_Lan_25.zip

Is there by any chance someone who can help me out? Perhaps by providing me with the correct *.o file?

Is the 6.5 perhaps loaded with this driver? Although I am not sure if 6.5 is final. I do not want to use a beta distro.

Hope someone can help.

greetings

Hans-Cees

[hanscees]

Hi,

I installed a vmware with sme 6.01.
Installed devtools from
wget -m http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/hpe/devtools-6.01/dev-rpms/

I then downloaded the source for the rhinefet driver
http://www.viavpsd.com/product/2/3/Lan_EPIA_V.zip

I ran make and that got me the rhinefet.o file.

I ported that rhinefet.o file to my sme 601 server on the mini-itx platform.

However, when I do an insmod rhinefet.o it says:

[root@idsnew root]# insmod rhinefet.o
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol alloc_skb_Rf0b0d440
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol create_proc_entry_R396b6e4d
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_R7225c177
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol softnet_data_R364b8c21
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_Rd3ef3250
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol proc_net_R20063dfa
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_Rc4ca0af4
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol remove_proc_entry_Rd785096f
rhinefet.o: unresolved symbol __kfree_skb_R03a733b2

Did I do anything wrong??

modprobe rhinefet.o sais:
modprobe: Can't locate module rhinefet


when I do a make install on the vmware it says:

mkdir -p /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.7/kernel/drivers/net
install -m 644 -o root rhinefet.o /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.7/kernel/drivers/net
*****  Move official driver via-rhine.o to via-rhine.o.backup
mv /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.7/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.7/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.o.backup

The insmod does not work since there is no such device of course.





any tips would be very much apreciated.

Hans-Cees

[laurie_lewis]

hanscees,

I have seen your post in the general area in another thread.  Have you tried changing your hard drive parameters??

I am getting almost 7mb/sec through a hub when transferring a 1 gig file to the server.  Get about 6.5 when copying the sme file from the server.

I am using the driver that 6.01 installs - have not changed anything.

Laurie

[hanscees]

hanscees,

I have seen your post in the general area in another thread.  Have you tried changing your hard drive parameters??



I am getting almost 7mb/sec through a hub when transferring a 1 gig file to the server.  Get about 6.5 when copying the sme file from the server.

I am using the driver that 6.01 installs - have not changed anything.

Laurie

Thanks for replying.

Yes I changed drive parameters, but nothing helps.

When you do lspci what type of chipset does it state?
Mine says:
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 51)

I can see in ifconfig that packets are dropped a lot when I transfer a large amount of data. Short burst are no problem.

Hans-Cees

[laurie_lewis]

Hans-Cees

This is the result you asked for.  Have included both network drivers.

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
00:14.0 Ethernet controller: Macronix, Inc. [MXIC] MX987x5 (rev 25)

Have you tried putting another network card into the computer to see if you have any improvement?  Have you a spare hard drive to setup and test to see if for some reason it is the hard drive?  Is it set up as Master?  Have you tried changing ide cables?

It does appear to be very strange.  I did have a network adapter go on my mini-itx motherboard previously that resulted in being able to log onto and see the network and then it all just disappearing.  It would begin to send data and then just crash.  From your description it does't sound like the same problem.

Sorry I can't think of much else.  As I said my installation is straight out of the box.  I have not changed any drivers.

Laurie