AT2500 nic upgrade

[Umberto Villano]

I have an Allied Telesyn AT2500Tx nic. It worked under Linux using the 
rtl8139 driver. After all sort of problems under WIN98, I patched the 
EEPROM card contents (it should fix the ACPI compatibility), using the 
program at the URL

ftp://ftp.alliedtelesyn.com/pub/2500nic/ACPI-KIT.exe

Now the card works under WIN98, but not under Linux. I have updated the 
driver of my RedHat 6.0 distribution to version 1.08a, and the adapter still 
does not work.

This is the output of the diagnostic program:

[root@wheel /root]# ./rtl8139-diag -a
rtl8139-diag.c:v1.01 4/30/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0xc400.
RealTek chip registers at 0xc400
 0x000: 1bd2a000 0000c1d9 80004100 00000000 00002000 00002000 
00002000 00002000
 0x020: 00fdb800 00fda000 00fda800 00fdb000 00fd2000 01000000 0000fff0 
20000000
 0x040: 70000000 00000000 8439e509 00000000 000f10c6 00000000 
0000e108 00100000
 0x060: 1000000f 05e1782d 00000000 00000000 00000005 000f77c0 
78fa8388 ad38de43.  No interrupt sources are pending.
   (null) indication.
 The chip configuration is 0x10 0x0f, MII half-duplex mode.
[root@wheel /root]# ./rtl8139-diag -e
rtl8139-diag.c:v1.01 4/30/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0xc400.
Parsing the EEPROM of a RealTek chip:
  PCI IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139, Subsystem 0x1259.
  PCI timer settings -- minimum grant 32, maximum latency 64.
  General purpose pins --  direction 0xe1  value 0x10.
  Station Address 00:A0:D2:1B:D9:C1.
  Configuration register 0/1 -- 0x0d / 0xc2.
 EEPROM active region checksum is 093e.
[root@wheel /root]# ./rtl8139-diag -m
rtl8139-diag.c:v1.01 4/30/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0xc400.
 The RTL8139 does not use a MII transceiver.
 It does have internal MII-compatible registers:
   Basic mode control register   0x782d.
   Basic mode status register    0x1000.
   Autonegotiation Advertisement 0x05e1.
   Link Partner Ability register 0x0000.
   Autonegotiation expansion     0x0000.
   Disconnects                   0x0000.
   False carrier sense counter   0x0000.
   NWay test register            0x0005.
   Receive frame error count     0x0000.
[root@wheel /root]#

Any suggestions?

Umberto





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prof. Umberto Villano
Universita' del Sannio
Facolta' di Ingegneria
Palazzo Bosco Lucarelli, C.so Garibaldi 107
82100 Benevento
Italy

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