Yes, I tried the de4x5 driver - de4x3 was a misspelling. Did some more tests and found strange behaviour :
If the network cable is unplugged at startup it is possible to establish a working connection with the de4x5 driver but only at 10Mb/sec.
Kernel 2.4.35 and 2.6.22 seem to give the best results.
It does not work if the cable is connected during startup and also the tulip driver does not work on the Alpha.
But on the i86 it is just the opposite - the tulip works perfect whereas the de4x5 driver crashes the system.
Thanks, Ian
--- Urs Traber <urs.traber@swissonline.ch> schrieb am Di, 2.12.2008:
Von: Urs Traber <urs.traber@swissonline.ch>
Betreff: Re: Problems with DIGITAL 21143
Ethernet Controller
An: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org
Datum: Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2008, 22:55
On Nov 19, 1:10 am, Ian Las <ia...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,In the past I tried to install the embedded DIGITAL 21143
Ethernetcontroller
> of my UX 164 Alpha without any success.
> At the moment Debian etch is installed.
> Recently I got an old Intel Box with an DIGITAL 21140 PCI
Ethernetcontroller
> and was surprised to find a working network with a 2.6.22 kernel.
>
> But the PCI Board did not work in the Alpha machine !?
> Reactivating an old NT 4.0 Alpha harddisk the embedded 21143 Ethernet
> Controller performed without any problems.
> So I think the hardware should be without any failure.
>
> Both drivers - the Tulip and the DE4x3 - were tried with various 2.6.xx
> kernels.
> The "ifconfig" command shows an active network environment but
it fails
> to work.
> The DE4x3 driver gives no error messages.
> The Tulip driver gives periodically a "network down" and
"network up" status.
>
> If this controller works on an Intel system it should work also on Alpha ?
> Are there any working DIGITAL 21143 controllers on Alpha machines ?
> Are any special parameters necessary ?
>
> Thanks,Ian
Did you try the de4x5 driver? I'm using it e.g on a AS300 (lspci
output):
Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21040
[Tulip] (rev 26)
Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43
(rev 30)
/etc/modprobe.d/de4x5 contains options de4x5 args='eth1:fdx
eth0:autosense=TP'
kernel is a "vanilla" 2.4.32 built for Avanti.
It also works for the embedded DE500-BA (DC21143) in a DPW500au:
Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43
(rev 30)
there is no /etc/modprobe.d/de4x5 on this machine, i.e. no options are
passed.
kernel is a "vanilla" 2.6.21 built for Miata.
Urs
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