[tulip] D-Link DFE-570TX card works 3/4

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andreas Trottmann wrote:

> We just bought a D-Link DFE-570TX "quatruple NIC" card for use in a server. 
> Unfortunately, we experienced a problem with it which (after searching
> the mailing list archives) seems to be quite unique.
> 
> Basically, the first NIC of the card (corresponding to the topmost port)
> acts very strange, while the other three NICs work fine.
> 
> When booting 2.2.18 with the tulip driver, we get

Which driver version?  You omitted that info from the report.

> eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0xcc80, EEPROM not present, 00:4C:69:6E:75:79, IRQ 11.
> eth0: Old style EEPROM with no media selection information.

This is the key -- this interface doesn't have an EEPROM.
A recent tulip driver will go back and correct the station address and
media table.

Note: I didn't think that the DFE-570TX had this problem.  I believed
that only the Matrox board had the EEPROM in the "middle" interface.

> eth1: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0xcc00, 00:80:C8:CA:5C:D4, IRQ 10.
> eth2: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0xc880, 00:80:C8:CA:5C:D6, IRQ 9.
> eth3: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0xc800, 00:80:C8:CA:5C:D7, IRQ 5.

Hmmm, note the "skipped" address  ...:D4 and ...:D6 -- the driver did go
back and assign the correct station address.  You can verify this with
'ifconfig eth0'.

But I still need the driver version to figure out what is going on below.

> eth0: Tx hung, 11 vs. 0.
> eth0: 21140 transmit timed out, status f0660005, SIA 000000c6 ffff0001 fffbff7f 8ff0c008, resetting...

What does 'tulip-diag -af' report at this point?  I'm especially
interested in the transceiver selection.

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