[tulip] ANA-6944A/TX Question concerning port layout

[John Cusick]

I have tried some more troubleshooting and found that switching the pci
slot results in the following:

eth0 - int 16
eth1 - int 16
eth2 - int 16
eth3 - int 19

By the way, the board is a PR440FX with amibios, I mis-reported earlier.

I still have to initiate eth3 first, then eth2, then eth1, then eth0,
otherwise they will not initiate.

I'm using the latest driver as far as I know, v0.95f

Is this the normal behavior of the Adaptec ANA-6944A/TX?

Any replies will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

John C.


On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:40, John Cusick wrote:
> I forgot to mention, after reading source code and other messages in the
> archives, that the interrupts are set:
> 
> eth0 - 16
> eth1 - 16
> eth2 - 16
> eth3 - 17 
> 
> I'm assuming that this is pertinent.
> 
> Also, it's an INTEL Dual processor 440BX with AMIBIOS.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John Cusick
> 
> On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:27, John Cusick wrote:
> > I recently acquired a couple of Adaptec AN-8944A cards and popped one in
> > a linux box running kernel 2.2.19 (redhat based e-smith server). After
> > downloading the latest drivers and compiling them (with no problems), I
> > struggled to get the card operating properly.
> > 
> > The EEPROM is associated with Index#4, so what results is that I have to
> > set eth3, 2, 1, and then 0. If I let the system/module set it
> > automatically (setting eth0 first, etc) then the card does not negotiate
> > properly and will not communicate.
> > 
> > It ends up setting all ports to 100baseT SYM/??
> > 
> > As some of you know, the network scripts are fairly automatic and so all
> > I did was change the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ethX scripts to fake
> > it. In other words, ifcfg-eth0 is set to use dev: eth3, ifcfg-eth1 is
> > set to use eth2, etc
> > 
> > I tried reverse_probe, but that changed nothing.
> > 
> > Is there a way to set the card so that it configures in the expected
> > order? This is not a show-stopper, but it means some re-writes of lots
> > of perl scripts on my part to satisfy the e-smith way of doing things,
> > and perl is not one of my strong points.
> > 
> > Hopefully I made myself clear enough to make sense to you all.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > John Cusick
> > 
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