ANA-6911A/TX - one card works, 2 fail

Johannes Walther hannes@jw-b.de
Mon May 17 11:49:20 1999


Johannes Walther wrote:
> 
> Charles X wrote:
> >
> 
> ( Sorry for my english )

pleas help, i must have run this card on linux....

> 
> > Sorry to bother you again,
> >
> > I still can't get the ana-6911atx to work...
> 
> the same on my ana-6911a/txc with rj and AUI (BNC), but a litle bit
> different

[...]

> Two ana-6944a/tx works fine with tulip-0.91...
> 
> An older single card with DEC-21140 work fine.....
> 
> i put an ana-6911a/tx with DEC-21143 and the light gos on, driver
> loading on boot. The light go,s out when i make an ifconfig. The other
> side is the same card with an HUP to connected and work on other
> maschines fine with an other System (not Linux).

[...]

> I can send any output from tulip-diag on Monday, the cards is on
> workplace

Hello,

OK now output from 

after loading the driver from kernel, light on card gos on !

tulip-diag -e -e -m -m -a -p0xe400

tulip-diag.c:v1.10 4/12/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
 Port selection is MII, half-duplex.
 Transmit stopped, Receive stopped, half-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
  The Tx process state is 'Stopped'.
  The transmit threshold is 128.
EEPROM contents:
  1109 2b00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  00b4 0103 0000 1cd1 3606 2800 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0800 9702 0003 2102
  0008 0300 0821 0001 0000 7800 01e0 5000
  1800 8c00 4102 0009 0705 0006 0821 0005
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 042b ce6b
 ID CRC 0xb4 (vs. 0xb4), complete CRC 298c5564.
Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:00:D1:1C:06:36.
EEPROM transceiver/media description for the Digital Tulip, unknown type
chip.
Leaf node at offset 40, default media type 0800 (Autosense).
 2 transceiver description blocks:
  Media MII, block type 3, length 23.
   MII interface PHY 0 (media type 11).
   21143 MII initialization sequence is 2 words: 0821 0000.
   21143 MII reset sequence is 3 words: 0821 0001 0000.
    Media capabilities are 7800, advertising 01e1.
    Full-duplex map 5000, Threshold map 1800.
    No MII interrupt.
 MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786f.
 MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
   3100 786f 2000 5c01 01e1 0081 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 8060
   8020 0c01 0000 1800 a3b9 007c 2d05 001b.
 Basic mode control register 0x3100: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x786f ... 786f.
   Link status: established.
   Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
   *** Link Jabber! ***
 Vendor ID is 08:00:17:--:--:--, model 0 rev. 1.
   Vendor/Part: National Semiconductor 83840A.
 I'm advertising 01e1: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT
   Advertising no additional info pages.
   IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD protocol.
 Link partner capability is 0081: 100baseTx.
   Negotiation did not complete.

Hm validity check ?

I think is OK...

If i have now an ifconfig, the light from the card gos out...

What can i do, is ifconfig my problem, 
( Kernel is 2.0.36 )

Hannes
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