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
>
> --
> John Dunlap University of Washington
> Senior Electrical Engineer Applied Physics Laboratory
> dunlap@apl.washington.edu 1013 NE 40th Street
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>