Problem with DFE-500TX, 2.2.6, tulip v0.91

Peter Leschev wizard@progsoc.uts.edu.au
Wed Apr 21 06:51:39 1999


I've having problems setting up the above card. ifconfig shows that the
card is up and running, the startup messages show that the card is found
but I can't ping another machine (link light is on). I turned debugging
messages on for the driver and it comes up with:

 eth0: Transmit timeout using MII device

I'm at a loss as to what it could be. Could yuou please help me out:

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PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Intel 82434LX Mercury/Neptune (rev 3).
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    Non-VGA device: Intel 82378IB (rev 3).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  
  Bus  0, device   3, function  0:
    Non-VGA device: Symphony 82C101 (rev 0).
      Fast devsel.  IRQ 14.  
  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    VGA compatible device: S3 Inc. Vision 864-P (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80800000 [0x80800000].
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: DEC DC21140 (rev 34).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40.
      I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80000000 [0x80000000].

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tulip-diag.c:v1.10 4/12/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Index #1: Found a Digital DS21140 Tulip adapter at 0xd000.
Digital DS21140 Tulip chip registers at 0xd000:
  ffa08000 ffffffff ffffffff 00005010 00005210 fc120000 320e2002 ffffebef
  e0000000 fffd83ff ffffffff fffe0000 ffffff80 ffffffff 1c09fdc0 fffffec8
 Port selection is MII, half-duplex.
 Transmit started, Receive started, half-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Reading a Rx descriptor'.
  The Tx process state is 'Reading a Tx descriptor'.
  The transmit threshold is 128.
EEPROM contents:
  1186 1100 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  00d0 0103 8000 f6c8 c017 1e00 0000 0800
  0100 018c 0000 0000 e078 0001 0050 0018
  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 2758
 ID CRC 0xd0 (vs. 0xd0), complete CRC e51b21f2.
Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:80:C8:F6:17:C0.
EEPROM transceiver/media description for the Digital DS21140 Tulip chip.
Leaf node at offset 30, default media type 0800 (Autosense).
 CSR12 direction setting bits 0x00.
 1 transceiver description blocks:
  Media MII, block type 1, length 12.
   MII interface PHY 0 (media type 11).
    No MII reset sequence.    No MII initialization sequence.
    Media capabilities are 7800, advertising 01e1.
    Full-duplex map 5000, Threshold map 1800.
 MII PHY found at address 0, status 0x782d.
 MII PHY #0 transceiver registers:
   1000 782d 7810 0001 01e1 0021 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 4000 0000 2009 0010 0000 0002
   0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
 Basic mode control register 0x1000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x782d ... 782d.
   Link status: established.
   Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
 Vendor ID is 1e:04:00:--:--:--, model 0 rev. 1.
   Vendor/Part: Level One LXT971.
 I'm advertising 01e1: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT
   Advertising no additional info pages.
   IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD protocol.
 Link partner capability is 0021: 10baseT.
   Negotiation did not complete.

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lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:F6:17:C0  
          inet addr:172.16.1.1  Bcast:172.16.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:42 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xd000