On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 11:35:39PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 12:14:50PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 01:21:38PM +0100, Cornelius Weiss wrote:
i managed to install a debian-base-system from the net-install image on
a digital alpha-station255.
After the reboot of DI the installation couldn't be finished, as the
network isn't working.
On colsole it alwas says: "Wanrning: No link beat Found"
Is sombody aware of a solution for this problem?
Many of the Alphas with builtin old/slow TULIPs give problems with
the current default driver ("de2104x"). I think it's NOT the driver's
fault, but some kinda quirky implementation on the mobos. Regardless,
it doesn't work successfully (and won't, until the quirkiness is
understood).
If the other TULIP driver "de4x5" is built for your kernel, try that.
By old/slow TULIPs, I mean 21040 and 21041 chipsets.
Are there any changes that should be made to the kernel's modules.pcimap for
this?
If they become "generic", meaning affect ALL platforms, then no, I think
that'd be wrong, since the majority of machines don't have the builtins,
and don't exhibit the problem.
And the Alphas with those builtin are:
AS200/AS250/AS255/AS300/AS500
Those same old/slow TULIP chipsets, when on a PCI card (like the DE434
and DE435), do seem to work OK with the "de2104x" driver, IIRC.
Hrm. Does that mean the PCI IDs match between the working and non-working
cases?
I believe they match exactly, but I'll check...
--Jay++
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