Problem with 0.91g-ppc driver in 2.2.14

Wolfgang Walter wolfgang.walter@stusta.mhn.de
Thu Jan 27 22:47:05 2000


On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 09:50:24AM +0000, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My tulip card worked with kernel 2.2.13 but has broken with the new driver
> in 2.2.14.

Use old_tulip.c instead

(Old DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support' CONFIG_DEC_ELCP_OLD)

Several people seem to have the problem that there card is detected as DC21041,
but later sometimes treated as 21143.

Wolfgang Walter

> 
> Using tulip as a module, I get:
> 
> eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 17 at 0x6000, 00:00:C0:B2:A2:DE, IRQ 9.
> eth0: 21041 Media table, default media 0800 (Autosense).
> eth0:  21041 media #0, 10baseT.
> eth0:  21041 media #4, 10baseT-FD.
> eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good.
> eth0: 21041 transmit timed out, status fc260000, CSR12 000050c8, CSR13
> ffffef01, CSR14 ffffffff, resetting...
> eth0: 21143 10mbps sensed media.
> 
> Then it doesn't seem to work. ifconfig reports:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:B2:A2:DE  
>           inet addr:131.111.200.163  Bcast:131.111.255.255
> Mask:255.255.0.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:406 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:810
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6000 
> 
> /proc/pci contains:
> 
>   Bus  0, device  20, function  0:
>     Ethernet controller: DEC DC21041 (rev 17).
>       Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master
> Capable.  Latency=32.  
>       I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].
>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].
> 
> 
> ----------
> 
> The driver in 2.2.13 is fine. I get:
> 
> tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip at 0x6000, 21041 mode, 00 00 c0 b2 a2 de, IRQ
> 9.
> eth0:21041 Media information at 30, default media 0800 (Autosense).
> eth0:  21041 media #0, 10baseT.
> eth0:  21041 media #0, 10baseT.
> 
> Although I do get lots of collisions in ifconfig:
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:B2:A2:DE  
>           inet addr:131.111.200.163  Bcast:131.111.255.255
> Mask:255.255.0.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:359996 errors:49 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:77
>           TX packets:2667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:2028 txqueuelen:100 
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6000 
> 
> 
> I noticed a similar problem in the mailing list, but thought this would be
> helpful. Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeremy.
> 
> -- 
> Jeremy Sanders  jss@ast.cam.ac.uk     Pembroke College, Cambridge. CB2 1RF
> (01223) 337511  Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge. CB3 0HA
> - I could have gone for charm or beauty, but instead I went for strange  -
> -------------------------------------- http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe send a message body containing "unsubscribe"
> to linux-tulip-bug-request@beowulf.org

-- 
Veni, Vidi, VISA:
	I came, I saw, I did a little shopping.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe send a message body containing "unsubscribe"
to linux-tulip-bug-request@beowulf.org