Hamachi Support & Driver Development

Michael Angelo mangelo@packetengines.com
Mon Apr 19 12:55:17 1999 

Berhard,

   We will look into this as soon as possible to help resolve the problem. I
will also have the documentation on the G-NIC testing specs that you have
requested as soon as I have gathered them. Thanks for keeping in close
contact with us. We are pleased to be working with you and SuSE, and look
forward to inclusion of our product on you new release.


-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd Kaindl [mailto:bk@suse.de]
Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 9:17 AM
To: Ted Matsumura
Cc: Kim Stearns; Bob Jones; Patrick Smyly; Michael Angelo; Jeff
Stockdale; G-NIC II(Hamachi)Developers List
Subject: RE: Hamachi Support & Driver Development 


Hi all, I make a second reply, as we are repeating the back to back
observation with different Hardware now and ran into trouble again.

PC1: SNI PRIMERGY 270 2*PII-400Mhz 32-Bit PCI Bus
PC2: SNI PRIMERGY 870 4*PII-450Mhz 32-Bit PCI Bus choosen.

I'm missing an self test of the card at driver initialisation like that:

eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet at 0x3800, 08:00:06:0D:DB:25, IRQ
29.
Board assembly 742170-254, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
Receiver lock-up workaround activated.

This is the initialisation sequence of the Intel Etherexpress.

In PC1 here, I got this for example:

Found Hamachi GNIC-II at PCI address 0xfecfe004, IRQ 9.
hamachi.c:v0.14 3/11/1999  Written by Donald Becker
   ^ISome modifications by Eric kasten <kasten@nscl.msu.edu>
   ^ISupport by many others
   ^Ihttp://www.tidalwave.net/~becker/hamachi.html
eth1: Hamachi GNIC-II type 10911 at 0xe0862000, 00:e0:b1:04:1a:c6, IRQ 9.
eth1:  32-bit 33 Mhz PCI bus (60), Virtual Jumpers 30, LPA 0000.
eth1: Something Wicked happened! 0002.
eth1: Something Wicked happened! 0200.
eth1: Hamachi transmit timed out, status 00006081, resetting...
   Rx ring dde10000:  0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000
0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000d000 0000
 d000 0000d000 0000d000 
syslogd: Cannot glue message parts together

Looks not very nice.

Can anyone help here?

BTW: Give me the details for the NDA, especially about conditions releasing
GPL source code from looking into the Specifiactions of the registers and
the card.

best regards,

Bernhard Kaindl
Distribution Development

SuSE AG
Schanzaeckerstrasse 10
D-90443 Nuremberg

http://www.suse.com

On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Ted Matsumura wrote:
> 
> Bernhard,
>   We are looking forward to supporting SuSE, as we are aware you are one
of
> the leading Linux distributors.
> 
> Could you give us more details about the auto-negotiation issues you have
> experienced?  What switch were you connecting to, or was this a back to
back
> observation?
> 
> We can release our Technical Specifications for the G-NIC II (which uses
the
> Hamachi ASIC), but we would require an NDA.
> 
> If you are not planning on writing your own driver, but just utilizing one
> of the many 3rd party Linux and M-VIA drivers for Linux, then you would
not
> need the databook.
> 
> Please let me know if the drivers at this link are applicable towards your
> current and future distributions:
> 
> http://www.packetengines.com/support/linnet.htm
> 
> I look forward to hearing from you Bernhard.  Thanks.
> 
> Ted Matsumura, Product Manager
> Packet Engines, Inc.
> (509)777-7327
> tedm@packetengines.com
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Bernhard Kaindl [SMTP:bk@suse.de]
> > > Sent:	Wednesday, April 14, 1999 6:34 PM
> > > To:	Packetengines Customer Support
> > > Subject:	Hamachi Support & Driver Development
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >   we are a Reseller of Hard- and Software and besides this, we the
> > > leading Linux Distributior in Europe.
> > >
> > >   I've two Hamachi's here to look if they are working with the
> > > upcoming Linux OS which we distribute in masses not less than
> > > 150000 pieces per version at a rate of not less than 2 versions
> > > per year.
> > >
> > >   We are considering your card as a solution for your custorer's
> > > demand for gigabit ethernet.
> > >
> > >   However, I've not managed to get the cards to make reliable
> > > autonegotiation. Also the driver is incomplete.
> > >
> > >   If you want us to support your card, provide us with your support
> > > and send me the Engineering Design Specification for the Hamachi.
> > >
> > >   We simply need working gigabit for Linux _now_, so if you cannot
> > > provide us with the needed support we have to use another solution.
> > >
> > > with best regards,
> > >
> > > Bernhard Kaindl
> > > Distribution Development
> > >
> > > SuSE AG
> > > Schanzaeckerstrasse 10
> > > D-90443 Nuremberg
> > >
> > > http://www.suse.com
> > >
> >
> 
> 
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