Re: Ethernet trouble on Mac IIvi
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 Michael Schmitz wrote:
> Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> > nubuse: rewind of 16356!
> > Network Ethernet_Asante
> > Ethernet DrHW = 104 DrSW = 100
> > apple/clone: testing board: 16K memory - OK
> > mac_ms8390.c:v0.01 7/5/97 Alan Cox (Alan.Cox@linux.org)
> > rbv: stuck events 2
> > rbv - bashing source 1
> [...]
> > One related thing is that we get error messages when we try to use
> > `eth0' similar to these.
> >
> > eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x17, t=999.
> > eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=6500.
> >
> > Anybody know what is wrong? Is our ethernet card really recognized?
> It seems happy. But the Mac isn't (level triggered Nubus interrupts as
> soon as the NS8390 chip is probed). It disables the card interrupt in
> the attempt to escape the interrupt flood.
> Add code to acknowledge and clear the card interrupt on the card. Maybe
> it's enough to tweak the probe code to disable the interrupt in the
> 8390 before anything else is done to the chip.
That would require rebuilding the kernel, right? Problem is, without
that ethercard working there is no way we can install the tools to do
that :-(
We installed a base system from the hard disk, but we don't have the
space (163MB) to put on packages. We were planning on installing from
an NFS mounted directory. We just wanted to play around a bit with it
to see if we can get a mail server or something running. Maybe we can
borrow a SCSI disk from someone ...
Thanks anyway,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen & Masaki Nakanishi Mac admin team
Information Management Systems Laboratory Shinshu University, Japan
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