RE: via-rhine fails to get Ethernet card address
I solved my own problem by moving the NIC to a different PCI slot.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wim van der Meer [mailto:vdmeer@geosearch.co.jp]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 1:29 PM
> To: Debian-User
> Subject: via-rhine fails to get Ethernet card address
>
>
> I am a new Linux user, and could use some help determining what
> the problem
> is with my Corega FEther PCI-TXM card, which has a VIA VT6102 chip. I have
> Potato installed with the via-rhine module. I have read a whole bunch of
> manuals, howto's and FAQ's, but I could not find anything that
> was helpful.
>
> I think that the problem is that the hardware address of the Ethernet card
> is not detected properly, but I have no idea what I can do to solve this.
>
> Here is the relevant part (I hope) of my syslog file:
>
> [snip]
> kernel: via-rhine.c:v1.08b-LK1.0.0 12/14/2000 Written by Donald Becker
> kernel: http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
> kernel: eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xd800, 00:00:00:00:00:00, IRQ 9.
> kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status 0000,
> resetting...
> last message repeated 4 times
> [snip]
> kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 0000, PHY status 0000,
> resetting...
> last message repeated 7 times
> [snip]
>
>
> And here is the output of 'ifconfig eth0':
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:13 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xd800
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Wim van der Meer
>
>
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