[tulip] Problems with SMC EZ 10/100 Cardbus Card

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Michael Thaler wrote:

> I read the information about the tulip-driver on
> www.scyld.com/network, I tried to edit the /etc/pcmcia/config file and
> replaced the bind "tulip_cb" with bind "smc91c92_cs.o", but that did
> not work either.

What document suggested that you try the 91c92 driver?  That's a driver
for an old ISA/PCMCIA design, while you have a CardBus card.

What driver were you attempting to use?  What was the detection message?

> I also downloaded the tulip-diag program. I got the output:
> ./tulip-diag -fa:
...
> Digital DS21143 Tulip chip registers at 0x280:
>  0x00: f8a08000 ffffffff ffffffff 00a41010 00a41210 f0660000 b20e2002
> fbfffbff
>  0x40: e0000000 ffffcbf8 ffffffff 00000000 000000c6 ffff0000 fff80000
> 8ffb0000
>  Port selection is MII, half-duplex.
...
>  MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
>    3000 7809 0040 6212 00a1 0000 0000 0000

You don't have link beat.  What is this machine connected to?  (The
"link partner".)

> What else can I do to find this error? I looked through the
> tulip-mailing list archive and found other people having the same
> problems but they did nothing that helped for me.

What problem do you have?  Many different problems look alike, "doesn't
work".

All SMC CardBus cards are known to work with the Scyld released driver.
The instructions are at
  http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html

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