[tulip] Linksys card recognition?

Jon Schewe jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net
28 Aug 2000 19:54:56 -0500


Of course unless something has changed recently you can't use hte card on a
10/100 switch, works fine on a 10Mpbs hub though.

David Shochat <shochat@acm.org> writes:

> I have the same card you have. It is working fine and my /proc/pci shows
> pretty much exactly the same thing as yours for it:
> 
>   Bus  1, device  10, function  0:
>     Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
>       Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
>       Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master
> Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
>       I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
>       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xff8ff800 [0xff8ff800].
> 
> Note that LNE100TX is just the card model number, not the chip.
> According to what I see in my syslog from boot:
> 
> Aug 28 17:58:45 h kernel: tulip.c:v0.92 4/17/2000  Written by Donald
> Becker <becker@scyld.com> 
> Aug 28 17:58:45 h kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html 
> Aug 28 17:58:45 h kernel: eth1: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xc805e800,
> 00:20:78:18:08:26, IRQ 11. 
> 
> I would say the driver thinks the chip is ADMtek Comet.
> 
> "David R. Kohel" wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just obtained a Linksys LNE100TX card; no eth0 line appear in the
> > boot sequence.  I find that the entry in /proc/pci is
> > 
> >   Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
> >     Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
> >       Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
> >       Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master
> >       Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
> >       I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
> >       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd5810000 [0xd5810000].
> > 
> > That is, it doesn't appear to pick up the chip LNE100TX or any other
> > identifier.  Thereafter 'insmod tulip.o' gives an error message saying
> > that the device is busy.
> > 
> > This is my first time to use a PCI card; any advice on forcing the
> > card to be recognized would be greatly appreciated.  I'm running
> > a Debian system with kernel 2.2.15.
> > 
> > --David
> > 
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