[tulip] No luck on Compaq Presario 1215 EA

[beevis@libero.it]

Dear all,
I have a negative report about my laptop, Compaq Presario 1215EA, the
European
version with Athlon 4 1 GHz.
It has a Conexant ethernet board, as well as the modem.
I have tried the net under both plain kernels (+ext3, but this doens't
make
any difference as far as I know) 2.4.7 and 2.4.0, a redhat 7.1
installation
and gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85).

I have tried pci-scan.c v 1.06, 1.07 and 1.08;
tulip.c v0.92w 7/9/2001
the package from tulip-0.92wax.tar.gz.
It compiles and enables me to insert with
insmod pci-scan
insmod tulip
then network start
I use no options, just default parameters.
added
   alias eth0 tulip
in modules.conf
The network starts.
But stops after passing a few bytes; say two ls -l in ~ .
Sometimes with the message

kernel: Warning: kfree_skb on hard IRQ d0874b14

sometimes with no messages, depending on the driver version used.
The machine doesn't crash; by rmmod the two and restart I can reproduce
the situation without reboot.
But the driver doesnt' work. That's it.
Could anyone help, may I hope for the near future or do I have to buy
a pcmcia network card? I've seen the Conexant claim that there will be
a driver for the modem. Is that true for the network as well?
Thank you
Nicola Fabiano

Here is lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
(rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]

00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South]
(rev 22
)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10)
00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
(rev 30)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
Controlle
r (rev 20)
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: CONEXANT: Unknown device 1803 (rev 08)
00:09.1 Communication controller: CONEXANT: Unknown device 1815 (rev 05)

00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus
Controller (re
v 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility
P/M AGP 2x
 (rev 64)

Here is the tulip-diag output.

tulip-diag.c:v2.08 5/15/2001 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a Conexant LANfinity adapter at 0x1400.
Conexant LANfinity chip registers at 0x1400:
 0x00: fff84000 ffffffff ffffffff 00000000 00000000 f4008800 e00a0040
7bfe0000
 0x40: fffe0000 fffd80e8 fffe0000 fffe0000 ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff
f7f9fec8
 Extended registers:
 80: cc008800 cbfe0000 f0000018 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 00000000
00000000
 a0: ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
 c0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
 e0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 00000000
00000000
 Port selection is 10mpbs-serial, half-duplex.
 Transmit stopped, Receive stopped, half-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
  The Tx process state is 'Stopped'.
  The transmit threshold is 72.
 Interrupt sources are pending!  CSR5 is f4008800.
   Timer expired indication.
EEPROM 256 words, 8 address bits.
Conexant EEPROM format is undocumented.
 MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7809.
 MII PHY found at address 0, status 0x7809.
 MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
   1000 7809 0022 1720 01e1 0000 0004 2001
   1000 7809 0022 1720 01e1 0000 0004 2001
   1000 7809 0022 1720 01e1 0000 0004 2001
   0000 0000 0000 0000 01e1 2001 0000 8c00.
 MII PHY #0 transceiver registers:
   1000 7809 0022 1720 01e1 0000 0004 2001
   1000 7809 0022 1720 01e1 0000 0004 2001
   1000 7809 0022 1720 01e1 0000 0004 2001
   0000 0000 0000 0000 01e1 2001 0000 8c00.