v0.91 and SMC 8342T troubles

Dana Hudes root@cncdsl.com
Sun Apr 18 11:46:46 1999


Somehow v0.91 is an improvement in that the card 
stays in 10baseT mode longer.

Here is /et/conf.modules:

alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias eth0 tulip
options eth0 options=12 debug=6

Here are the results from tulip-diag:
./tulip-diag -f -e -e -a -m -m

tulip-diag.c:v1.10 4/12/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Index #1: Found a Digital DC21041 Tulip adapter at 0xe880.
Digital DC21041 Tulip chip registers at 0xe880:
  ffe08000 ffffffff ffffffff 00f8f028 00f8f228 fc661010 fffe20c2 ffffebef
  fffe0000 ffff03ff ffffffff fffe0000 000064c8 ffffef09 fffff7fd ffff0006
 Port selection is 100mbps-SYM/PCS 100baseTx scrambler, half-duplex.
 Transmit started, Receive started, half-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
  The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
  The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward.
EEPROM contents:
  10b8 2009 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  006c 0103 e000 3629 d851 1e00 0000 0800
  0002 0004 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 7dfb
 ID CRC 0x6c (vs. 0x6c), complete CRC 2041414e.
Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:E0:29:36:51:D8.
EEPROM transceiver/media description for the Digital DC21041 Tulip chip.
Leaf node at offset 30, default media type 0800 (Autosense).
 2 transceiver description blocks:
  21041 media index 00 (10baseT).
  21041 media index 04 (10baseT-Full Duplex).
   No MII transceivers found!

Here is the tulip driver announce in /var/log/messages:

Apr 18 11:16:16 www kernel: Found Digital DC21041 Tulip at PCI I/O address 0xe880. 
Apr 18 11:16:16 www kernel: tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov 
Apr 18 11:16:16 www kernel: eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 33 at 0xe880, 21041 mode, 00:E0:29:36:51:D8, IRQ 11. 

Here, finally, is the various messages about eth0 from today's reboot
after building v0.91

Apr 18 11:16:16 www kernel: eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 33 at 0xe880, 21041 mode, 00:E0:29:36:51:D8, IRQ 11. 
Apr 18 11:16:16 www kernel: eth0:21041 Media information at 30, default media 0800 (Autosense). 
Apr 18 11:16:16 www kernel: eth0:  21041 media #0, 10baseT. 
Apr 18 11:16:16 www kernel: eth0:  21041 media #0, 10baseT. 
Apr 18 11:16:17 www kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled. 
Apr 18 11:16:17 www kernel: eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled. 
Apr 18 11:16:18 www arpwatch: listening on eth0
Apr 18 11:16:19 www kernel: eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2. 
Apr 18 11:16:20 www named[299]: listening on [209.220.92.60].53 (eth0)
Apr 18 11:16:49 www kernel: eth0: 21041 media switched to 10baseT. 
Apr 18 11:31:22 www kernel: eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2. 
Apr 18 11:31:52 www kernel: eth0: 21041 media switched to 10baseT. 
Apr 18 11:32:54 www kernel: eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2. 
Apr 18 11:33:24 www kernel: eth0: 21041 media switched to 10baseT. 
Apr 18 11:35:57 www kernel: eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2. 
Apr 18 11:36:07 www kernel: eth0: 21041 media switched to 10baseT. 
Apr 18 11:37:39 www kernel: eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2. 
Apr 18 11:37:49 www kernel: eth0: 21041 media switched to 10baseT. 
Apr 18 11:37:51 www kernel: eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2. 
Apr 18 11:38:21 www kernel: eth0: 21041 media switched to 10baseT. 
Apr 18 11:37:37 www kernel: eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2. 
Apr 18 11:38:07 www kernel: eth0: 21041 media switched to 10baseT. 



Thanks 
Dana Hudes