Re: tulip driver 2.4.x kernel
"James D. Freels" wrote:
>
> I have a DE-500-AA ethernet card on a PC164 motherboard with 500Mhz 21164A
> Alpha chip. I purchased this turnkey from Microway. It has worked fine with
> all kernels up until 2.4.x. Then it fails both with de4x5 and tulip drivers.
Please try an "ifconfig -a" are you getting collisions or carrier
errors?
I have 3 pc164lx boxes, they don't show this problem.
All have firmware V5.8-1 and the srm console.
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The microway is a good box...
What does ">>> show ewa*" return for ewa0_mode off the srm console?
Maybe I should back up a step. What does
"Then it fails both with de4x5 and tulip drivers." mean ?
it won't boot or it doesn't talk to the world?
Do you have aboot v0.7 or v0.7a installed? If not, you can
end up not mounting root.
If it does boot, but will not talk, make sure ">>> set ewa0_mode auto"
and that your switch is autonegotiate on that port. The tulip driver
should report how it is talking... (this is from the generic tulip
driver CONFIG_DE4X5=y)
Jun 20 10:04:51 alleycat kernel: eth0: DC21143 at 0x200008400 (PCI bus
1, device 3), h/w address <blah>
Jun 20 10:04:51 alleycat kernel: and requires IRQ45 (provided by
PCI BIOS).
Jun 20 10:04:51 alleycat kernel: de4x5.c:V0.546 2001/02/22
davies@maniac.ultranet.com
Jun 20 10:04:53 alleycat kernel: eth0: media is 100Mb/s.
for the tulip driver (CONFIG_TULUP=Y)
Jun 22 08:19:47 alleycat kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre2
(May 16, 2001)
Jun 22 08:19:48 alleycat kernel: tulip0: EEPROM default media type
Autosense.
Jun 22 08:19:48 alleycat kernel: tulip0: Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0)
described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
Jun 22 08:19:48 alleycat kernel: tulip0: Index #1 - Media 10base2 (#1)
described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
Jun 22 08:19:48 alleycat kernel: tulip0: Index #2 - Media AUI (#2)
described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
Jun 22 08:19:48 alleycat kernel: tulip0: Index #3 - Media 10baseT-FDX
(#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
Jun 22 08:19:49 alleycat kernel: tulip0: Index #4 - Media 100baseTx
(#3) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) block.
Jun 22 08:19:49 alleycat kernel: tulip0: Index #5 - Media 100baseTx-FDX
(#5) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) block.
Jun 22 08:19:49 alleycat kernel: eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at
0x200008400, 08:00:2B:86:EF:D1, IRQ 45.
Jun 22 08:19:50 alleycat kernel: eth0: Using user-specified media
100baseTx-FDX.
>
> On Thursday 21 June 2001 11:29 am, you wrote:
> > I have run all but 2.4.3 on my XP1000's, with the tulip driver
> > (not the generic driver for 2114x cards). The driver has some troubles
> > doing autonegotiate to a (sick) lucent p120 switch, but seems ok
> > with the hp-procurve. What box and what switch do you use?
> > usually you have to force ewa0 into fast-fd and force the switch
> > fast-fd to get it working right.
> >
> > berkley
>
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> James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.
> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
> freelsjd@ornl.gov - work
> jdfreels@home.com - home
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