Re: GA622T on pc164 with debian unstable
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Andres Meyer wrote:
> HW:
> pc164, 500Mhz, SRM Console
> sym53c875, 2GB Barrracude, Toshiba CDROM
> Netgear GA622T Copper Gigabit, 64bit pci, National Semiconductor DP83820
> chipset
I don't think anyone has tried a GA622T card yet (although I have
experience with the GA620T Acenic-based card)....
> kernel 2.2.19:
> boot OK
> compile of ns820.c from scyld.com: no problem
> insmod: ok, correct message
> ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.55: correct, no reaction, eth1 visible with MAC
> address and everything
> does not answer pings
> route add default gw 192.168.0.254: message: "something wicked happend!"
> impossible to send something
Ugh...this looks like a problem that I had with the acenic
driver. Unfortunately, it's been so long now, that I forgot how I got
around it.
> kernel 2.4.9-ac7:
> boot not possible, detects 100Mhz pci-clock and aborts because its out of
> range while trying to init sym53c8xx driver. When using ncr53c8xx -> driver
> loads, timeout while finding HD.
> I tried with all kinds of options and combinations for the scsi drivers, no
> luck.
That's odd. Have you tried any other 2.4 kernels?
> Well, so much for that, I think I tried a lot. Any ideas? Debugging
> approaches? Information to add? Other lists to ask? I do speak C, but not too
> much of the alpha-kernel-dialect...
Can you send me the output of 'lspci -vxxx' with the netgear
inserted? Also, most of Becker's drivers have debugging code, so you may
want to enable that to see what's going on.
C
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