Original Submission:
I have a newer ps2 that has problems with the original ethernet driver. It will randomly crash (with in 5 minutes of booting) and I cannot shutdown because of an error report. When I used the smap beta driver all went well but with your 2.2.21 release candidate the old problem resurfaces. Have you not integrated the fix or is there a new bug?
If you need more detail I would be happy to oblige but as it now stands I must revert back to 2.2.1 with a patched driver.

Email me at : adam.edgar@ua.edu

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I'm curious: does the error report you mentioned look like: "eth0: close: TxMAC is still running(xxxx0000,0x80000000)" and just repeating ad infinitum? I'm having this problem, not with the xrhino (which I haven't yet tried) but with the regular release of PS2 Linux v1.0, on a newer (no IEEE1394 port on the front) version of the PS2 hardware.	2005-Mar-06 08:04	brooklynwalker
Hello again (!) I'm sorry by my previous post, the beta driver *works fine* (still a bit slow, but above 4MBytes/s) with the PAL SCPH-39004 PS2 model, it is enough with replacing the /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.21-pre-xr7/drivers/ps2/smap.c with the beta 'smap.c.us' provided for the 2.2.1. And, of course, after the compilation, the smap.o file must be placed at /lib/modules/2.2.21-pre-xr7/ path. The problem I had was related to misconfiguration of the kernel building (quite stupid errors while doing 'make menuconfig' option choosing, et al). Cool regards, aragon	2003-Jul-04 17:51	aragon
Hello again (!) I'm sorry by my previous post, the beta driver *works fine* (still a bit slow, but above 4MBytes/s) with the PAL SCPH-39004 PS2 model, it is enough with replacing the /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.21-pre-xr7/drivers/ps2/smap.c with the beta 'smap.c.us' provided for the 2.2.1. And, of course, after the compilation, the smap.o file must be placed at /lib/modules/2.2.21-pre-xr7/ path. The problem I had was related to misconfiguration of the kernel building (quite stupid errors while doing 'make menuconfig' option choosing, et al). Cool regards, aragon	2003-Jul-04 17:49	aragon
Hi There is true about problems with smap.o released with 2.2.21 and newer PS2's: -With my "old" PAL PS2 the smap driver works fine with the 2.2.21 drivers. -But, my new PS2 SCPH-39004 PAL console, the driver doesn't work properly/fine. Big FTP transfers makes the driver fail. Well, I'll try to do something with the driver, as we have the smap beta driver for the 2.2.1 kernel... Kind regards, aragon	2003-Jul-04 14:01	aragon
Hmm... Make absolutely sure that you copied the smap.o driver into the correct /lib/modules/2.2.21-pre1-xr7 directory. If you haven't, the old smap.o driver is still being loaded. To our knowledge, nobody else has had a problem with the new smap.o driver in the pre1-xr7 kernel. You might want to use the beta smap driver, as that may contain some fixes that the one in the kernel does not (we don't really know because we haven't had a chance to look at the recent changes in the beta smap driver). Let us know if you are absolutely positive that the smap.o driver is in the right place.	2003-Mar-27 06:08	msporny

Bug Change History

Field	Old Value	Date	By
assigned_to	nobody	2003-Mar-27 06:08	msporny
resolution_id	None	2003-Mar-27 06:08	msporny