[tulip-bug] NetGear FA511 problems

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Jeremiah Savage wrote:

> I recently purchased an IBM ThinkPad 600x and got a NetGear FA511 for 
> ethernet (a 10/100 cardbus card). It worked fine under win98, so I wiped 
...
> Dec  1 16:30:23 debian kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 
> 9, 2002)

Have you tried the unmodified driver?

> Dec  1 16:30:23 debian kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x4000, EEPROM 
> not present, 00:4C:69:6E:75:79, IRQ 11.

Is this the message when the card is "working"?  There is a problem here...

> # ./tulip-diag -aaemmf
> tulip-diag.c:v2.15 9/23/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
> Index #1: Found a ADMtek AL985 Centaur-C adapter at 0x4000.
> ADMtek AL985 Centaur-C chip registers at 0x4000:
...
> EEPROM 256 words, 8 address bits.
> WARNING: The EEPROM is missing or erased!

What does 'tulip-diag -eee' report?

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