Problem with cogent EMASTER III-EISA

Uli Hofstoetter hofstoet@leila.fmi.uni-passau.de
Wed Dec 2 06:12:22 1998


Hello Everybody

I' trying to install Linux on a box with a Cogent EMASTER III-EISA 
card. 

insmod tulip fails with resource busy

So I found the tulip-diagnostics tool and ran
tulip-diag -f -e -e -a -m -m
and got

tulip-diag.c:v1.06 9/18/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Digital DC21040 Tulip Tulip chip registers at 0x300:
  ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
  00002000 10050000 4000a040 ffff0000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ff00cf00
 The Rx process state is 'Transferring Rx frame into memory'.
 The Tx process state is 'Closing Tx descriptor'.
  PCI bus error!: Unknown 7.
Transmit started, Receive started, full-duplex.
 The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward.
 Port selection is 100mbps-SYM/PCS 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex.
EEPROM contents:
  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 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
 ID CRC 0xe3 (vs. 00), complete CRC 3b59d4af.
 ***WARNING***: No MII transceivers found!




How dows this help me?


Greetings 
Uli


PS: My Install-disks contain kernel 2.0.34
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