FW: Second NIC on Alpha XLT-300
-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Spoon [mailto:dspoon@satx.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:06 AM
To: Paul Slootman
Subject: RE: Second NIC on Alpha XLT-300
See responses in the text of your response...
-Don Spoon-
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Slootman [mailto:paul@murphy.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 3:20 AM
> To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Second NIC on Alpha XLT-300
>
>
> On Tue 20 Feb 2001, Donald Spoon wrote:
> >
> > I recently came into possession of an old DEC
> Alpha XLT-300.
>
> Hey, that's my primary alpha! Don't call it old :-)
>
Sorry....<g> Since I am 60 myself, I tend to think "old"
since I consider it a term of honor ;)
> > The first added NIC I tried had a Realtek 8139
> chipset. The
>
> These aren't really to be recommended anyway,
> from what I hear
> the realtek nics aren't that good.
>
I have had excellent luck with Realtek chipset NICs in the
i386 arch. They always seem to be recognized and setup
properly and have worked for me in about 6 different
machinces....but this is an ALPHA, and it DOES seem to be a
bit pickey about the hardware it is called to work with ;)
(Mached true-parity memory chips, specific video cards,
etc).
>---snip---<
> Are both the on-board and the Lynksys recognized
> by the same
> instance of the driver? I.e., loading one module gives you
> two interfaces? That's what should happen if it's
> a tulip-compatible;
I "think" so. An "lsmod" shows:
Module Size Used by
tulip 45680 2
pci-scan 4184 0 [tulip]
As noted before, I am using the latest "tulip" modules from
Don Becker, which uses the "pci-scan" layer that he has
introduced lately. Is that a problem?? In var/log/messages
I can see where BOTH cards are recognized and setup as eth0
and eth1. As an aside, at the start of the bootup there is
a line in /var/log/messages..."Inspecting /boot/System.map"
followed by another line "cannot find System.map". What is
the proper label for the /boot/System.map file? That is
what I have it called there.
> Did you confirm that ping works fine with the on-board?
>
Yes. Let me "clarify" a bit. My LAN is setup to use the
192.168.10.xxx address space. I when I have the "on-board"
set to the proper LAN address (192.168.10.3) and the other
card set to a "dummy" address (10.0.0.1) everything works
fine with the on-board...ping, telnet, ftp, etc. The only
thing that doesn't work is the machine will NOT show up on a
remote computer's XDMCP "chooser" list. I "think" this is
because the on-board is slower than the rest of the
network...not sure about this. I can ping the on-board, but
NOT the second NIC. Pings going out from the ALPHA also work
fine without any complaints. I cannot "ping" the second
card.
On the other hand, when I set the faster Lynksys up for the
proper LAN address and the on-board to the "dummy" address,
I cannot ping EITHER address from a remote machine.
Interestingly, the computer DOES show up on the remote XDMCP
"chooser" screen but will not load. This is the situation
where I get the CRC errors when I try to ping from the
ALPHA.
> Otherwise, I believe the 3Com cards should work
> fine on alpha...
>
>
> Paul Slootman
> --
Late-breaking news...AFTER I wrote the above notes. Based
on comments from you and the others on the group, I took a
chance and "upgraded" to the "Testing" version of the
netbase package. Now all NICs work as they should!! I
still see the ping CRC errors, but on byte 8 now, just like
Wieger mentioned. It appears I had a couple of things going
on and the "upgrade" fixed one of them. I will get the
newer version for the netkit-ping as soon as it becomes
avaliable, but I can live with this [BIG GRIN}!
Thanks to all!!!
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
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