Re: Difficulty getting Alteon NIC to work on ES45
Is it the same kernel? Does the new machine's kernel have firmware upload enabled?
...tom
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:39:43 +0100, Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> I'm in the process of preparing an ES45 for porting use by Debian
> developers. The machine is essentially identical to goetz; it's a 4-
> way 1.25 GHz ES45 with 8GB RAM.
>
> It has three NICs, two Intel 100MBit and one Alteon GBit NIC. goetz
> uses the Alteon, and I've been trying to configure the new machine
> the same way, but for some reason the new machine is not recognising
> the NIC. I get the following detection messages on the machine at
> bootup:
>
> acenic.c: v0.92 08/05/2002 Jes Sorensen, linux-acenic@SunSITE.dk
> http://home.cern.ch/~jes/gige/acenic.html
> 0003:04:02.0: Alteon AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet at 0x601000000, irq 56
> Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:60:cf:21:72:50
> PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 248 clks
> 0003:04:02.0: Firmware NOT running!
>
> Compared with goetz:
>
> acenic.c: v0.92 08/05/2002 Jes Sorensen, linux-acenic@SunSITE.dk
> http://home.cern.ch/~jes/gige/acenic.html
> 0003:04:02.0: Alteon AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet at 0x601000000, irq 56
> Tigon II (Rev. 6), Firmware: 12.4.11, MAC: 00:60:cf:21:8b:e0
> PCI bus width: 64 bits, speed: 66MHz, latency: 248 clks
> 0003:04:02.0: Firmware up and running
>
> So the firmware version in both cards is identical. The kernel
> running on both machines is identical. Both are running etch. I'm
> mystified! Anyone got any clues?
>
> Tim
>
>
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