Hello,

I'm using the Shuttle SN95G5 + SuSE 9.1 x86_64. Everything is working fine other than the ethernet.

The ethernet is working but the kernel (2.6.5-7.111-default) gives the following message many times.

eth0: -- ERROR --
Class: internal Software error
Nr: 0x19e
Msg: Vpd: Cannot read VPD keys

I found the same problem but it was not the answer.
bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136158

I updated the driver (6.23) to the newest (7.09), but the error continues to appear.
www .syskonnect.de/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk9e21_lin.htm

And the traffic statistics is always 0. So, the SNMP doesn't work. I'd like to improve this most.

# cat /proc/net/sk98lin/eth0

Detailed statistic for device eth0
=======================================

Board statistics

Card name
Vendor/Device ID 11ab/4320
Card type (Bit) 32
Active Port A
Preferred Port A
Interrupt Moderation disabled
Bus speed (MHz) 0
Bus width (Bit) 0
Driver version 7.09 (05)
Driver release date Oct-20-2004
Hardware revision v1.3

Receive statistics

Received bytes 0
Received packets 0
Receive errors 0
Receive dropped 0
Received multicast 0

Transmit statistics

Transmitted bytes 0
Transmitted packets 0
Transmit errors 0
Transmit dropped 0
Transmit collisions 0


# cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 544267 7265 0 0 0 0 0 0 544267 7265 0 0 0 0 0 0
sit0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0


I'd appreciate your advice. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,

http://www.lxtreme.nl/index.pl/blog/1101900807 has a solution.
-mj

I found a fix for this problem; it's a dos-patch released by ASUS for their K8V board. Even though it's a different board, the SN95G5 uses the same Marvell Yukon Gigabit lan chip with the same problem. I found that patch worked on three of my systems.

The patch can be found at:

http://www.asus.com/support/download...ch.zip~zaqwedc

Good luck.