[realtek] rtl8139 and kernel 2.4.5 initialization problem

[Guillaume Rumeau]

Hi,

Since I installed a Linux kernel 2.4.5, I have a problem at boot-up
with the driver of my Ethernet Card rtl-8138B.


Here the error-message :

8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.17
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:10.0
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:07.2
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc5804000, 00:48:54:6e:39:d3, IRQ 9
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'

eth0: media is unconnected, link down, or incompatible connection


I use a dhcp client to configure the network.
After boot-up, the connexion seems to be ok.
(I post this mail with this machine).

I would like to know if it is a known-bug of the driver or if it a
hardware-problem.
When I used an old kernel (2.2.18) I have no problem like that.

The Kernel Documentation say that this is a new version of the driver,
which is almost stable on x86.

My station is very standard : PC x86 with intel processor PIII 700MHz,
PCI Bus with AGP.


Other informations :

# ./rtl8139-diag -ee
rtl8139-diag.c:v2.03 5/15/2001 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0x1000.
EEPROM size test returned 6, 0x204a7 / 0.
Parsing the EEPROM of a RealTek chip:
  PCI IDs -- Vendor 0x10ec, Device 0x8139, Subsystem 0x10ec.
  PCI timer settings -- minimum grant 32, maximum latency 64.
  General purpose pins --  direction 0xe1  value 0x12.
  Station Address 00:48:54:6E:39:D3.
  Configuration register 0/1 -- 0x8d / 0xc2.
 EEPROM active region checksum is 09d5.
EEPROM contents:
  8129 10ec 8139 10ec 8139 4020 e112 4800
  6e54 d339 8d10 f7c2 8801 b388 58fa 8708
  d843 ad38 d843 ad38 d843 ad38 d843 ad38
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
 The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0x067b.
 Would write new Default Media entry 0x0000 to offset 6, the current value is 0xe112.


Thank you.


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