Re: Problems Farallon Fast Ether TX-10/100 (DEC 21143)
Andrew Sharp wrote:
>
> Jeff Blaufuss wrote:
> >
> > I recently installed Debian 2.2 on my Powermac 4400, everything seems to
> > have installed fine, but my ethernet card (a Farallon Fast Ether
> > TX-10/100) won't work.
> >
> > Linux recognizes and configures it, but the link light won't even turn
> > on. Is this card supported? Has anyone found a way to work around this
> > problem?
> >
> > Here's what I know:
> > It uses a DEC 21143 chip
> > In NetBSD it uses the de driver
> > The link light never turns on in Linux, it doesn't turn on in MacOS
> > until the computer is fully booted.
> > I have a PowerMac 4400
> > I'm running the 2.2.19 kernel
> > lspci says: 00.0d.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation
> > DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Did you load the tulip driver?
>
> # modprobe tulip
I ran "modprobe tulip" and it gave me this:
modprobe: Can't locate module tulip
>
> You said "linux recognizes and configures it" what did you mean by
> that? what IP address did you give it? What does ifconfig say?
>
It gets recognized in the boot messages, and ifconfig seems have gotten
the info I gave during installation.
This is ifconfig's output (there may be typos):
#ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C5:50:F0:F8
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric: 1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:24 Base address:0x400
lo
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