[tulip] 21143 Quad Blues

[Ben Greear]

Does the board have a brand?  For instance, ZYNX's 4-port does not work
with most (all?) drivers, but the DFE-570tx does work with later 2.4 kernel
drivers...



VIZADINI@lanier-europe.com wrote:

> 
> hi,
> 
> I  have been having some trouble getting this quad ethernet card
> to work; any help you could provide is greatly appreciated. The card
> was purchased at Black Box, which is a computer + electronics supplier
> here in Belgium, and the tulip card carries this shop's brand.
> 
> After reading the documentation on http://www.scyld.com/network/
> and http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/hardware/quartet.html i have
> put together the information i hope will be of assistance in
> helping you point me in the right direction.
> 
> I'm running (Slackware) Linux kernel 2.4.14 on a Compaq Deskpro,
> and i am able to compile the drivers available on scyld.com for this
> tulip card (because the ones shipped with the kernel apparently
> don't work -- and they produce problems of their own).
> 
> Now, i compile tulip.c and pci-scan.c and insmod both .o files in
> /etc/rc.inet1 (as specified in the documentation).
> 
> IF the Compaq bios has PCI Bus Mastering enabled, then dmesg
> shows:
> ---
> tulip.c:v0.93 11/7/2001  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> eth0: Digital DS21143-xD Tulip rev 65 at 0xc8845000, 00:C0:F6:10:0A:B1, 
> IRQ 9.
> eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> eth0:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) 
> block.
> eth0:  Index #1 - Media 10baseT-FDX (#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY 
> (2) block.
> eth0:  Index #2 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) 
> block.
> eth0:  Index #3 - Media 100baseTx-FDX (#5) described by a 21143 SYM PHY 
> (4) block.
> ---
> and the same thing appears in /var/log/messages.
> 
> IF the Compaq bios has PCI Bus Mastering disabled, then dmesg
> shows:
> ---
> tulip.c:v0.93 11/7/2001  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
>   The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 0/112!  Updating PCI 
> command 0003->0007.
> eth0: Digital DS21143-xD Tulip rev 65 at 0xc8845000, 00:C0:F6:10:0A:B1, 
> IRQ 9.
> eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> eth0:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) 
> block.
> eth0:  Index #1 - Media 10baseT-FDX (#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY 
> (2) block.
> eth0:  Index #2 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) 
> block.
> eth0:  Index #3 - Media 100baseTx-FDX (#5) described by a 21143 SYM PHY 
> (4) block.
> ---
> 
> note the difference on like 3.
> 
> However, in -any- case, neither eth1, eth2, or eth3 is available.
> 
> my /etc/modules.conf includes:
> 
> alias eth0 tulip
> alias eth1 tulip
> alias eth2 tulip
> alias eth3 tulip
> 
> the output to tulip-diag, as well as /proc/pci, /proc/interrupts, and 
> /proc/ioports
> are available upon request, because the previous posting i made (which 
> included
> all that information) exceeded the maximum size allowed on this list.
> 
> I have also tried to compile tulip.o with -DREVERSE_PROBE_ORDER=1 but no 
> luck..
> 
> Would anyone happen to know a way to get this to work?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Vafa.
> ______________________________________________
> 
> Vafa Izadinia                                          
> Lanier Europe B.V.
> Tel: +32 02/658.2430  
> Fax: +32 02/672.7728
> ______________________________________________


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