[tulip] Tulip and PowerPC endian issue?

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Robert W March wrote:
> On January 30, 2003 16:14, Jim Rowe wrote:
> > Has this driver been known to work correctly with a CardBus interface on
> > the PPC? I'm working with some custom hardware and it would be helpful
> > to know if the driver has been tested on such a setup.
..
> I can tell you that I also have attempted to use a Netgear FA511 CardBus PC 
> Card with both Donald's driver and, in my case, the kernel 2.4.18 driver. I 
> have had no success either.  The appropriate modules load OK, occasionally 
> ping bytes are transmitted but few if any are received.  I would like to see 
> this card working but for now it is sitting on the shelf.  I have gone back 
> to using an NE2000 card.  Others have reported on this list of failure with 
> this card.

Has anyone with a PPC tried to the driver with a message level of 15?

> The following are my results.  You will notice that the eeprom contents have 
> come up empty.  On some occasions the eeprom contents were present but still 
> the card did not function.
...
> # tulip-diag -eee
> tulip-diag.c:v2.16 12/17/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
>  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Index #1: Found a ADMtek AL985 Centaur-C adapter at 0x4800.
>  Comet duplex is reported in the MII status registers.
>  Transmit started, Receive started.
>   The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
>   The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
>   The transmit threshold is 128.
>   Comet MAC address registers 697a1000 ffff38f1
>   Comet multicast filter 0000000040000000.

These are all correct.

Is this on a PPC machine?  If so, what distribution?  Many PPC
distributions in the past have had broken diagnostic interfaces
(presumably because the people making the distribution didn't understand
what the code was for).

> EEPROM 256 words, 8 address bits.
> WARNING: The EEPROM is missing or erased!

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