Re: Ethernet card problems
Thanks guys,
My card works fine now....I rechecked the cable(I hadn't thought this
might be a problem as it worked when I booted into W98) and used the dos
utility to specify a BNC connector, and now the card works fine....
Yeehaaaa!!!!
Manny.
Venu wrote:
>
> hi manuel
>
> i had similar problems ..the solution
>
> 1. check the ethernet cable is connected properly
> (i have this problem 80% of the time !!)
> 2. make sure ..especially in the case of an ISA card, that u r using the correct
> IRQ and IO address... use the DOS Utility of the card to check this... as on
> linux... the card driver sometimes gets installed even if the irq is specified
> wrongly
> 3. if the card is a combo BNC + UTP, in some cases, the driver is not able to
> switch on the correct interface.. so this may be fixed using the Ethernet card
> DOS utility to specify the same
>
> >> eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k
> >> RAM)
> >> eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem
>
> from this .. the problem may probably be option 2 above... check it out !
>
> let me know how it works out..
>
> cherio
> venu
>
> >> 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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