On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:06:18PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, Still pluggin' away at this problem with my D-Link DFE-530TX NIC. > But when I stick knoppix in, it happily accesses the network, and lsmod > shows via-rhine and mii modules (one shows as "used by" the other, but I > don't remember which way 'round)... > > So I built myself a 2.4.21 kernel (that's the version knoppix was using) > from a Debian source package, built support for the via-rhine right into > the kernel, and (wonder of wonders) my new kernel boots! I've since tried the 2.4.21 kernel with via-rhine support as a module (module loads successfully), and a 2.4.22 kernel from kernel.org sources. All with similar results. > Now... eth0 seems to exist, but not actually work... <SNIP> > The little green light on my router says the connection is there. I have since tried specifying an IP and netmask on the ifconfig command line, and adding a route to my gateway. These seem to work fine, according to the output of ifconfig and route. But then when I try to ping the gateway, I get this: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status 786d, resetting... eth0: Reset not complete yet. Trying harder. eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1. And naturally it reports 100% packet loss. See attached text file for more details. So I did some googling on that error message, and found this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/3/31/178 which suggests booting with the noapic option... Tried it -- no change. (I did that right by typing "linux noapic" at lilo's prompt, right?) There's also some mention in that thread about a patch? ... At this point I'm becoming less inclined to suspect my config, and more inclined to think something's actually wrong. But I _know_ the hardware works. I can boot the Knoppix CD and have a successful 100baseT network connection. (I keep doing that in order to drag kernel sources over to the blasted machine)... Help? -- ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------. > -ScruLoose- | If I had a dog as daft as you, I'd shoot him. < > Please do not | - Scottish Proverb < > reply off-list. | < `-------------------------------------------------------------------------'
webmail:~# ifconfig eth0 down
webmail:~# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.33 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
eth0: Reset not complete yet. Trying harder.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.
webmail:~# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:05:5D:75:3C:E1
inet addr:192.168.1.33 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:198 (198.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6800
webmail:~# route add default gw 192.168.1.1
webmail:~# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
webmail:~# ping 192.168.1.1
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status 786d, resetting...
eth0: Reset not complete yet. Trying harder.
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.
--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---
17 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
webmail:~#
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