Problem with integrated laptop NIC

[Petronio, Guido]

I am having a great deal of trouble getting the integrated NIC to work on a
Hitachi Visionbook 7755 using RedHat Linux 6.1.  The NIC has no internal
addressing or interrupt conflicts, and it seems to work well when using
WindowsNT.  I have downloaded and compiled a later tulip driver (v.0.91g
7/16/99) but this has not helped.  I am using DHCP, and the strange thing is
that I am able to acquire an IP address and other environmental variables,
but then it appears as if I have no connectivity.  The output of the
following commands is:   

pump -i eth0 --status:

Device eth0
	IP: 192.168.1.146
	Netmask: 255.255.255.0
	Broadcast: 192.168.1.255
	Network: 192.168.1.0
	Boot server 192.168.1.222
	Gateway: 192.168.1.1
	Domain: greenwichtech.com
	Nameservers: 192.168.1.222 192.168.1.193
	Renewal time: Wed Mar  1 18:47:23 2000
	Expiration time: Wed Mar  1 19:02:23 2000

ifconfig eth0:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:90:8A:CD  
          inet addr:192.168.1.146  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:13 errors:14 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:12
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xfc00 

and tulip-diag:

tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Index #1: Found a Digital DS21143 Tulip adapter at 0xfc00.
 Port selection is 100mbps-SYM/PCS 100baseTx scrambler, half-duplex.
 Transmit started, Receive started, half-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
  The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
  The transmit threshold is 128.
  The NWay status register is 000020c7.
EEPROM size is 6.
PCI Subsystem IDs, vendor 1054, device 0104.
CardBus Information Structure at offset 00000000.
Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:80:C8:90:8A:CD.
EEPROM transceiver/media description for the Digital DS21143 Tulip chip.
Leaf node at offset 30, default media type 0800 (Autosense).
 1 transceiver description blocks:
  Media MII, block type 3, length 13.
   MII interface PHY 0 (media type 11).
   21143 MII initialization sequence is 0 words:.
   21143 MII reset sequence is 0 words:.
    Media capabilities are 7800, advertising 01e1.
    Full-duplex map 5000, Threshold map 1800.
    No MII interrupt.
 MII PHY found at address 17, status 0x782d.
 MII PHY #17 transceiver registers:
   1000 782d 7810 0001 01e1 41e1 0001 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 4000 0000 38c8 0010 0000 0002
   0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
  Internal autonegotiation state is 'Ability detect'.




Modifying the /etc/conf.modules file to include:

options tulip debug=6 options=11 

results in the following repeated announcement to the console:

The transmitter stopped! CSR5 is F0008102, CSR6 is B2420200

with the indicated addresses changing as the announcements continue.

I am fairly new to Linux/Unix based systems, and do not know what to try at
this point.  Any help or insight is greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Guido A. Petronio
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