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ewittle@ewittle.mindspring.com ewittle@ewittle.mindspring.com
Fri Dec 4 00:00:22 1998


Any help you can offer me here would be appreciated...

I have an ISA Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+, installed in a Packard-Bell
Platinum I (ugh). It works under Windows95, and doesn't work under Linux.
It is my understanding that the eepro100.o driver should work with this
card. Please help!

Configuration:

Machine - Packard-Bell Platinum I (P5-133, PnP BIOS disabled)
Card - Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+, PnP disabled, irq=10, io=210
Linux Version - RedHat 5.2 (Kernel 2.0.36)
Driver Version - 1.05

Details:

The command "insmod eepro100.o" returns 
    "eepro100.o: init_module: Device or resource busy"

The command "eepro-diag" returns
    "eepro100-diag.c:v0.07 2/25/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
     Unable to find an EEPro100 card in /proc/pci.
       If there is a i82557 card in the machine, explicity set the I/O port address
       using '-p <ioaddr>"

The command "eepro-diag -p 210" returns
    "A potential i82557 chip has been found, but it appears to be active. <etc>"

The command "eepro-diag -p 210 -f" returns
    "eepro100-diag.c:v0.07 2/25/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
      Use '-a' to show device registers,
      Use '-e' to show parsed EEPROM contents, -e -e to show more,
       or '-m' to show MII management registers."

The command "eepro-diag -p 210 -f -a" returns
    "eepro100-diag.c:v0.07 2/25/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
     i82557 chip registers at 0x210:
       0ff4080e 00000000 00000000 48020004 00000100 ffffffff
       Interrupt sources are pending.
        The transmit unit state is 'Idle'.
        The receive unit state is 'Unknown'.
      The Command register has an unprocessed command 0f74(?!)."

The command "eepro-diag -p 210 -f -e" returns
    "eepro100-diag.c:v0.07 2/25/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
     Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 EEPROM contents:
       Station address 00:00:00:00:00:00.
       Receiver lock-up bug exists. (The driver work-around *is* implemented.)
       Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present:
       Primary interface chip None PHY #0.

The command "eepro-diag -p 210 -f -e -e" returns
    "eepro100-diag.c:v0.07 2/25/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
     EEPROM contents:
       0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
       0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
       0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
       0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
       0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
       0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
       0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
       0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
      The EEPROM checksum (should be 0xbaba) is 00.
     Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 EEPROM contents:
       Station address 00:00:00:00:00:00.
       Receiver lock-up bug exists. (The driver work-around *is* implemented.)
       Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present:
       Primary interface chip None PHY #0.

-Eric Wittle
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 (919) 819-1319