wrong adapter version detected

John Dunlap dunlap@apl.washington.edu
Thu Nov 18 13:46:40 1999


Hi again,
Ooops, sorry, I had the software setup right.  Wrong cable.
Works fine now.
Pardons,
John

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble getting a recently acquired older card to play
> in a two-ethernet machine.  I tried "vortex-diag.c:v1.09 7/28/99
> Donald Becker" but it detects the cards incorrectly.  The driver,
> "3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker", detects the cards differently
> from vortex-diag.
> 
> The machine's a Dell.  IRQs are both 10.  Kernel is 2.0.36.
> Note that the cards are different: eth1 does not say autoselect.
> eth0 works fine.  eth1 doesn't at all.
> Vortex-diag Indexes are reversed: Index #2 refers to eth0 while Index
> #1 refers to eth1.  eth1 is the recently acquired card.
> 
> I's suspicious that the eth1 transceiver is selected incorrectly but
> vortex-diag gets off to a bad start so I could be having trouble
> seeing things.
> 
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> Driver results from /var/log/messages:
> 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker ...
> eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xdcc0,  00:c0:4f:b9:50:14, IRQ 10 
>   8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface.
>   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 786d. 
>   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. 
> eth1: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xdc80,  00:a0:24:d3:8e:c1, IRQ 10 
>   8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, MII interface. 
>   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7809. 
>   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
> 
> # ./vortex-diag -mm
> vortex-diag.c:v1.09 7/28/99 Donald Becker ...
> Index #1: Found a 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx adapter at 0xdc80.
>  MII PHY found at address 24, status 7809.
>  MII PHY 0 at #24 transceiver registers:
>    3100 7809 2000 5c00 01e1 0000 0000 0000
>    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 8040
>    8000 0058 0000 3800 a3b9 0080 8005 001d.
> Index #2: Found a 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx adapter at 0xdcc0.
>  MII PHY found at address 24, status 786d.
>  MII PHY 0 at #24 transceiver registers:
>    3100 786d 2000 5c01 01e1 0021 0000 0000
>    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 8060
>    8020 0c78 0000 3000 a3b9 0061 c105 001d.
> 
> # route
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 128.95.96.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0       20 eth0
> 192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        2 eth1
> 127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        6 lo
> default         dustbuster-V31. 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        7 eth0
> 
> # ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:4F:B9:50:14
>           inet addr:128.95.96.91  Bcast:128.95.96.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:53634 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>           TX packets:13285 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdcc0 
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:D3:8E:C1
>           inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>           TX packets:1298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xdc80 
> 
> -- 
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