[tulip] DFE-570-TX carrier and frame errors

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Lars Olsson wrote:

> I have problem with carrier and frame errors
> on an quad-port D-Link TFE-570-TX card 
> the #2 nic seems to have the most problem i think it's duplex related.
> But when i check with mii-diag and tulip-diag i have problem
> understanding the output of mii-diag vs. tulip-diag.
> For me it look's like mii-diag says 100Mb Full Duplex
> and tulip-diag say's Half duplex. Please correct me if i'm wrong.
...
> Kernel is 2.2.19 
> module is
> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov

You are using a modified version of the old 0.91 release, and those
modifications are frequently incorrect.

Does the driver from scyld.com have any problems?

mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
cd /tmp/netdrivers/
ncftpget ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
make
make install

> Router:# ifconfig eth2
> Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:CA:50:AA  
> inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Mask:255.255.255.252
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> RX packets:1159510213 errors:28137397 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:28137398
> TX packets:595603970 errors:632149734 dropped:0 overruns:0 
> carrier:632149734

Yup, horribly broken.

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