2.2.9 to 2.2.12-20 upgrade problem (fwd)

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Eric Christian Berg wrote:

> I've done a tulip-diag -m and got:
> 
> tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> Index #1: Found a Digital DS21143 Tulip adapter at 0xdc80.
>  Port selection is 100mbps-SYM/PCS 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex.
>  Transmit started, Receive started, full-duplex.
>   The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
>   The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
>   The transmit threshold is 128.
>   The NWay status register is 45e1d2cc.

OK, you don't have the board with a MII transcevier.

> Subject: 2.2.9 to 2.2.12-20 upgrade problem
..
> I was previously running Red Hat 6.0 with a 2.2.9 kernel without a
> problem. My output for eth0 detection was such:
...
> Last night I upgraded to Red Hat 6.1, which ships with the 2.2.12-20
> kernel. The network install worked fine, but when I booted up I got:
> 
> Oct 11 18:27:34 samedi kernel: tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98
> becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Oct 11 18:27:34 samedi kernel: eth0: Digital DS21142/3 Tulip at 0xdc80,
> EEPROM not present, 00 4c 69 6e 75 79, IRQ 0. 
> Oct 11 18:27:34 samedi kernel: eth0: Old style EEPROM -- no media
> selection information. 

OK, this isn't the same driver.  It's modified, and I'm not the the
maintainer.
See the recent discussion on the linux-kernel mailing list.
Send your bug report there.


Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov