Problems with Tulip on Alpha 164SX with Linux 2.2.9/tulip.c 0.91
Gernot Salzer
salzer@logic.at
Fri Sep 10 10:13:22 1999
The problem is solved (I hope).
It seems that for my kind of Tulip card and my hard/software
setup the "de4x5" driver instead of "tulip" has to be used.
Gernot
>
> Hello,
>
> are there any known pitfalls when installing a Lantronix LFA-PT
> Ethernet PCI Adapter (with DS21140 Tulip inside as it seems)
> on an Alpha 164SX Board under Linux 2.2.9?
> Did anyone succeed?
>
> I compiled tulip.c as a module and everything seems to be ok,
> except that I can get no working net connection (no ping's
> out, no reaction to external ping's).
>
> Any hints appreciated (see below for the details).
>
> Gernot
>
>
> Tests and observations (output of tulip-diag is at the end)
> ===========================================================
>
> * The physical connection to the Alpha 164SX PC works, as I checked
> by using another PC. The Lantronix itself acknowledges by LEDs that
> there is a 10BaseT half-duplex link.
>
> * On startup the AlphaBIOS 5.66 gives the following message when
> trying to initialize the NIC:
> "Initializing DC21X4 Adapters ...
> Adapter failed (no link detected)"
> Maybe ok, maybe not (IP parameters are not yet fixed at this point).
>
> * After booting Linux 2.2.9, /var/log/messages contains
> the following lines (beta is the host name):
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: Loaded 6853 symbols from /boot/System.map.
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.9.
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: Symbol #tulip, value 0003c000
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry.
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS
> MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0x8000,
> 00:40:05:36:50:D4, IRQ 25.
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a
> 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
> Sep 9 22:53:25 beta kernel: eth0: MII transceiver #0 config 1000 status 7809
> advertising 01e1.
>
> * "route -n" looks reasonable (host address 128.130.175.26,
> gateway 128.130.175.1, network mask 255.255.255.128):
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> 128.130.175.26 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 dummy0
> 128.130.175.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.128 U 0 0 0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> 0.0.0.0 128.130.175.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
>
> * After "ping 128.130.175.1" with 5 lost packages and none received
> "ifconfig eth0" gives:
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:36:50:D4
> inet addr:128.130.175.26 Bcast:128.130.175.127 Mask:255.255.255.128
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:25 Base address:0x8000
>
> * Varying the "options" for the tulip Modul (0, 9, 11, 12) gives the
> same results.
>
> * "cat /proc/interrupts":
> 1: 3747 keyboard
> 8: 2817893 timer
> 25: 27 eth0
> 26: 6801 sym53c8xx
>
> * "cat /proc/ioports":
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0070-007f : timer
> 02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
> 03c0-03df : vga+
> 03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
> 8000-807f : eth0
> 8800-887f : sym53c8xx
>
> * "cat /proc/modules":
> tulip 43384 1 (autoclean)
> dummy0 1632 1 (autoclean)
> serial 51008 0 (autoclean)
> memstat 2040 0 (unused)
> nls_cp437 4944 1 (autoclean)
> msdos 10544 1 (autoclean)
> fat 35944 1 (autoclean) [msdos]
>
> * "cat /proc/pci" (part):
> Bus 0, device 5, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: DEC DC21140 (rev 34).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 25. Master Capable.
> Latency=32. Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40.
> I/O at 0x8000 [0x8001].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x9000000 [0x9000000].
>
> - "cat /proc/ksyms | grep tulip"
> fffffe000003c0a0 tulip_probe [tulip]
>
> - "tulip-diag" with various options gives
> system type: EB164
> system vari: SX164
> cpu model: PCA56
> ioperm: turn_on 1 io.base 0
> ioperm: mmap of len 0x200000 returned 0x20000356000
> ioperm: mprotect returned 0
> Index #1: Found a Digital DS21140 Tulip adapter at 0x8000.
> Digital DS21140 Tulip chip registers at 0x8000:
> ffa0e000 ffffffff ffffffff 4cecb818 4cecba18 fc660000 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 'Waiting for packets'.
> The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
> The transmit threshold is 128.
> EEPROM size is 6.
> Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:40:05:36:50:D4.
> 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.
> Restarting negotiation...
> MII PHY #0 transceiver registers:
> 1000 7809 7810 0000 01e1 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 4000 0000 0699 0010 0000 0002
> 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
>
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