Problem with new netgear fa310tx

Tue Nov 17 06:27:12 1998

I am having the infamous SIOCSIFFLAGS problem with a Netgear FA 310TX
purchased very recently--two weeks ago.  I have read several of the
archived messages concerning this card, so I am aware that there are
issues with the recent use of the Lite-On chip.  However, when I look
at the information presented me from my kernel logs, proc, and
tulip-diag, to my untrained eye the information seems to be different
that what I should expect.  

I have tried various versions of tulip.c, including the version that
shipped with the card and version 0.90, without success.  My system is
running the 2.0.35 kernel, and my failure with tulip.c 0.90 was when
the driver was loaded as a module.  This machine also runs Windows NT
4.0 (with regret), and the card works fine on NT hooked up to a
MediaOne Express cable modem.  

Below is the relevant portion of my kernel log, a copy of my
/proc/pci file, and output from tulip-diag.

I would greatly appreciate any assistance.

Erik Beck
ebeck@tahoma.com

>From Kerneld log

Nov 16 22:45:17 carbon kernel: sysctl: ip forwarding off
Nov 16 22:45:17 carbon kernel: tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Nov 16 22:45:17 carbon kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xfc00, 00 a0 cc 39 9c b0, IRQ 10.
Nov 16 22:45:17 carbon kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.

from /proc/pci

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device  14, function  0:
    SCSI storage controller: BusLogic MultiMaster (rev 8).
      Fast devsel.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
      I/O at 0xf8fc.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbef000.
  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:

    Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor LNE100TX (rev 33).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      I/O at 0xfc00.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffbfff00.
  Bus  0, device   6, function  0:

    VGA compatible controller: Number Nine Imagine 128 (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.  
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa0000000.
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa0400000.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa0800000.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa0c00000.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xa1000000.
      I/O at 0xe000.
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    Non-VGA device: Intel 82378IB (rev 67).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    IDE interface: PCTECH RZ1000 (buggy) (rev 1).
      Fast devsel.  
      I/O at 0x1f0.
      I/O at 0x3f4.
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Intel 82434LX Mercury/Neptune (rev 17).
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  

info from using tulip-diag, compiled using the alt-compile command

tulip-diag.c:v1.06 9/18/98 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Digital DC21040 Tulip Tulip chip registers at 0xfc00:
  00000000 01ff0000 000fffff 00000000 00000000 02000112 01440040 00000000
  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000025 00000000 00000000 10000000
 The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
 The Tx process state is 'Stopped'.
Transmit stopped, Receive stopped, half-duplex.
 The transmit threshold is 72.
 Port selection is MII 100baseTx scrambler, half-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!