[tulip] Re: Strange behaviour

Gabriele Alberti gabriele.alberti@email.it
Fri Oct 18 13:35:03 2002


No answers :(

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:35:35 +0200
Gabriele Alberti <gabriele.alberti@email.it> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have an Acer Aspire 1200 notebook with an ADMtek Comet rev 17 (as the tulip driver
> detects it) and I have a strange behaviour.
> During boot I get some weird warning
> ----------------------------------
> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre9 (Nov 6, 2001)
> PCI: Enabling device 00:11.0 (0012 -> 0013)
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:11.0
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:04.1
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:07.5
> PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:0d.0
> IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.0, have irq 11, want irq 5
> eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1c00, 00:90:96:2A:19:FB, IRQ 11.
> ----------------------------------
> The network card seems to work properly anyway, but from the ifconfig's output
> ---------------------------
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:2A:19:FB  
>           inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:11296 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:7860 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:15718
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
>           RX bytes:16285289 (15.5 MiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1c00 
> ----------------------------
> 
> there are several carrier and errors in transmission. 
> I've not been able to understand what those carrier number means (where to get
> detailed info about ifconfig's output??) but I guess there is something wrong with it,
> so I reported the problem.
> My kernel is a vanilla 2.4.18, if other info are needed just ask, I will be glad to 
> help.
> Any suggestion and comment will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> 	Gabriel
>