RE: Ethernet card problems
Hi,
I get a similar message when I boot the system with no ethernet cable
connected to the ethercard, no matter which card. BTW, I have the
same card running in a '386 slink box. No problems.
Feel free to contact me if you have further problems.
HTH,
--David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel [mailto:manuel@sea-to-sky.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 6:33 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Ethernet card problems
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have an Intel Ether Express 16 ISA card and I'm trying to
> get it to
> work with linux. Linux seems to detect the card ok, but after detection
> on boot up I get the message:
>
> eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem
>
>
> The dos diagnostics program for the card indicates that everything is
> OK, and it seems to work fine with Windows 98....I have included my boot
> message,...followed by the result of ifconfig...
>
> Any help is appreciated,
> Thanx,
> Manuel
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Memory: sized by int13 088h
> Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
> pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fad40
> pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb1c0
> pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1f0
> Probing PCI hardware.
> Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 30216k/32768k available (1136k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1032k
> data)
> Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
> NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
> Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
> IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
> Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
> alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done
> Linux version 2.0.36 (root@gondor) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Sun Feb 21
> 15:55:27 EST 1999
> Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29
> 02:46:13 $
> tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x282600 (0x28254c)
> Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
> loop: registered device at major 7
> ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
> hdc: IBM-DAQA-32160, 2067MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=4200/16/63, DMA
> hdd: TATUNG CD-652E, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> Partition check:
> hdc: [PTBL] [525/128/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 >
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Adding Swap: 12060k swap-space (priority -1)
> Adding Swap: 16092k swap-space (priority -2)
> Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $
> eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k
> RAM)
> eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem
> Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
> tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:3C:20:89
> inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255
> 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:6 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6
> Collisions:0
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
>
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