[vortex] Twofold problem with setting up 3Com PCI 3c900 Cyclone 10Mbps TPO in RedHat 6.1 system, updated to kernel 2.4.X.

[Martijn Ras]

Heya Folks,

My RedHat 6.1 system originally used kernel 2.2.12-20, at first i 
updated to kernel 2.2.16. In both kernel's i've not experienced any 
problems.
As i want to use my USB printer i thought i'd just update to the 2.4 
kernel ... so i downloaded kernel 2.4.2 and after some hazzle i got my 
printer going.
I'm completely cut off the internet though ... :( ...

First there's a complaint about "ip_always_defrag" not being there, seen 
some messages on that one on the net but haven't figured out how to get 
around it though.

Anyways, i can see my cable modem indicating there's something being 
send, just as with the kernel 2.2.X.
That's the end of the line though, there's a wait and no bell is rung to 
indicate a DHCP offer returning.
The kernel just continues after a while and leaves me stand-alone.

Here's the dmesg output, first the parts which are of interest, the 
whole lot is included below:

...
First we the ip_always_defrag ... we'll see about the IP stuff ... first 
get the ethernet card going else IP doesn't make itself too usefull ...
...
Goodies, looks like we found our ethernet card, so far so good ... :) ...
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PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
3c59x.c:LK1.1.13 27 Jan 2001  Donald Becker and others. 
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
eth0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Cyclone 10Mbps TPO at 0xa400,  00:50:da:e2:f3:c6, 
IRQ 10
  product code 5751 rev 00.4 date 01-22-00
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 182d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
...
Yup, that sums it up pretty much ...
...
eth0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
...
Guess we need things enabled to get hooked up, go on ... :) ...
...
almost done ... :( ...
...
eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8
eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8
...
Not?
...

Mazzel,

Martijn.






Linux version 2.4.4 (root@PiAlpha) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Thu May 17 19:54:41 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000ffec000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffec000 - 000000000ffef000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffef000 - 000000000ffff000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000000ffff000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 65516
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61420 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux-2.4.4 ro root=307
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 700.038 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1395.91 BogoMIPS
Memory: 255340k/262064k available (1120k kernel code, 6336k reserved, 
418k data, 208k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000, vendor = 2
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff c1c3f9ff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1010, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Disabled enhanced CPU to PCI posting
PCI: Disabled enhanced CPU to PCI posting #2
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:04.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Starting kswapd v1.8
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
block: queued sectors max/low 169669kB/56556kB, 512 slots per queue
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
   ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
   ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: IBM-DPTA-372050, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SV1533D, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM 50XS, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: ARW4424P, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 40088160 sectors (20525 MB) w/1961KiB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63
hdb: 29897280 sectors (15307 MB) w/472KiB Cache, CHS=1861/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 11X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(16)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NTFS version 010116
Serial driver version 5.05a (2001-03-20) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ 
SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
3c59x.c:LK1.1.13 27 Jan 2001  Donald Becker and others. 
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
eth0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Cyclone 10Mbps TPO at 0xa400,  00:50:da:e2:f3:c6, 
IRQ 10
  product code 5751 rev 00.4 date 01-22-00
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 182d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
eth0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M
agpgart: unsupported bridge
agpgart: no supported devices found.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:04.2
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:04.3
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 5
uhci.c: detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb.c: kmalloc IF cff06d80, numif 1
usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb.c: USB device number 1 default language ID 0x0
Product: USB UHCI-alt Root Hub
SerialNumber: d400
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: standalone hub
hub.c: ganged power switching
hub.c: global over-current protection
hub.c: power on to power good time: 2ms
hub.c: hub controller current requirement: 0mA
hub.c: port removable status: RR
hub.c: local power source is good
hub.c: no over-current condition exists
hub.c: enabling power on all ports
usb.c: hub driver claimed interface cff06d80
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:04.3
PCI: The same IRQ used for device 00:04.2
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 5
uhci.c: detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb.c: kmalloc IF cff06f40, numif 1
usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
usb.c: USB device number 1 default language ID 0x0
Product: USB UHCI-alt Root Hub
SerialNumber: d000
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
hub.c: standalone hub
hub.c: ganged power switching
hub.c: global over-current protection
hub.c: power on to power good time: 2ms
hub.c: hub controller current requirement: 0mA
hub.c: port removable status: RR
hub.c: local power source is good
hub.c: no over-current condition exists
hub.c: enabling power on all ports
usb.c: hub driver claimed interface cff06f40
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 208k freed
uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 58a port2: 58a data: 6
uhci.c: suspend_hc
hub.c: port 1 connection change
hub.c: port 1, portstatus 300, change 3, 1.5 Mb/s
hub.c: port 2 connection change
hub.c: port 2, portstatus 300, change 3, 1.5 Mb/s
uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 58a port2: 58a data: 6
uhci.c: suspend_hc
hub.c: port 1 connection change
hub.c: port 1, portstatus 300, change 3, 1.5 Mb/s
hub.c: port 2 connection change
hub.c: port 2, portstatus 300, change 3, 1.5 Mb/s
uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 588 port2: 588 data: 6
hub.c: port 1 enable change, status 300
hub.c: port 2 enable change, status 300
uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 588 port2: 588 data: 6
hub.c: port 1 enable change, status 300
hub.c: port 2 enable change, status 300
Adding Swap: 265032k swap-space (priority -1)
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8
eth0: using NWAY device table, not 8
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)