SMC1211TX + linux no go

Don Gray don@netcaliber.com
Sun Nov 15 10:42:05 1998


Hi, I believe you want to use the RTL8139 driver with that card, not the
TULIP.  I've got one at work and that's what I used.  

Don Gray

At 10:35 AM 11/15/98 +0100, herman dumont wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>i have a smc 1211TX card, in a PII x86 box , running linux 2.1.128.
>I have problems with the loading of tulip module.
>
>When i try to load the tulip driver as a module i get:
>Device or resource busy
>
>The output of tulip-diag -f -p ec00 -a -e -e is:
>
>tulip-diag.c:v1.06 9/18/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
>Digital DC21040 Tulip Tulip chip registers at 0xec00:
>  1d29e000 80004000 00002000 00002000 006ea000 006dc000 006d6000
>0000fff0
>  60000000 6eb337a9 000c1000 0000000c 1000000f 00000000 00000024
>00000000
> The Rx process state is 'Unavailable Rx buffer -- Flushing Rx frame'.
> The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
>Transmit started, Receive stopped, half-duplex.
> The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward.
> Port selection is MII, half-duplex.
>EEPROM contents:
>  2511 4b38 715e 9784 bdaa e3d0 09f6 2f1c
>  5542 7b68 a18e c7b4 edda 1300 3926 5f4c
>  8572 ab98 d1be f7e4 1d0a 4330 6956 8f7c
>  b5a2 dbc8 01ee 2714 4d3a 7360 9986 bfac
>  e5d2 0bf8 311e 5744 7d6a a390 c9b6 efdc
>  1502 3b28 624e 8875 ae9b d4c1 fae7 200d
>  4633 6c59 927f b8a5 decb 04f1 2a17 503d
>  7663 9c89 c2af e8d5 0efb 3421 5a47 806d
> ID CRC 0xe2 (vs. 0x42), complete CRC 3482384.
>
>
>The output of cat/proc/pci is:
><snip>
>   Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq Unknown device (rev 2).
>      Vendor id=1274. Device id=1371.
>      Slow devsel.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=12.Max
>Lat=128.
>      I/O at 0xef00 [0xef01].
>  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
>    Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 16).
>      Vendor id=1113. Device id=1211.
>      Medium devsel.  IRQ 5.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min
>Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
>      I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
>      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebffc00 [0xfebffc00].
>  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
>    VGA compatible controller: NVidia/SGS Thomson Riva 128 (rev 34).
>      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ b.  Master
>Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=1.
>      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfd000000 [0xfd000000].
>      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf3000000 [0xf3000008].
>
>Can anyone help me with this problem.
>
>Thanks
>
>
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