New D-Link DFE-500TX Rev-E1 not working?

[Jakob Sandgren]

Hello,

I have just tried the D-Link "DFE-500TX" (Rev. E1) with kernel 2.2.9.
It does not work.

Information about the card:
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Dlink DFE-500TX REV-E1
21143-PD
there is also one chip labeld DAVICOM.


Information about software used:
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idefix:~$ ifconfig -V
net-tools 1.45
ifconfig 1.33 (1998-03-02)

Information about the problem:
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The card is detected by the kernel (se below) and everything seems to
work fine for some seconds. "Link detect" on the hub (Netgear DS104) is
"on" (100Mbit). After some seconds the "link detect" led goes off and the card
is not working anymore. 
The acctivity LED on the card is flashing rappidly. 
The sequence:
"ifconfig down; ifconfig up"
...activates the card again (link detect is "ON"). But after some
seconds it stops working again. 

Could this be a half/full duplex problem?

Regards
/Jakob (Please send CC to me)


Information from the bootup:
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First try:
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: eth0: Digital DS21142/3 Tulip at 0xb800, 00 80 c8 f7 0f e4, IRQ 18. 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense. 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block. 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 8, config 3000 status 7829. 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel:   PCI latency timer (CFLT) is unreasonably low at 0.  Setting to 64 clocks. 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: Partition check: 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 > 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1) 
May 27 19:47:48 idefix kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0 
May 27 19:47:57 idefix kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0 
May 27 19:48:48 idefix papd[814]: restart (1.4b2+asun2.1.1)
May 27 19:59:02 idefix kernel: eth0: Using user-specified media MII. 



Second try (last line is different):
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: eth0: Digital DS21142/3 Tulip at 0xb800, 00 80 c8 f7 0f e4, IRQ 18. 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense. 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block. 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 8, config 3000 status 7829. 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel:   PCI latency timer (CFLT) is unreasonably low at 0.  Setting to 64 clocks. 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: Partition check: 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 > 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1) 
May 27 20:01:35 idefix kernel: NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0 
May 27 20:01:37 idefix kernel: eth0: 21142 100baseTx link beat good. 

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