stupid (?) fa310tx problem (fwd)

Sun Feb 13 15:44:05 2000

please excuse the stupid question. i have seen the netgear cards cause 
problems frequently, and mine maybe related. however, i can't seem to 
be able to figure out the solution from the mailing list.

i am running mandrake 6.1.
card is a fa310tx (rev 2??) pci card.

i have tried the included tulip.c as well as copied the latest tulip.c
from the nasa web site. when i boot i get this :

>Feb 13 20:31:22 chocolate network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded 
>Feb 13 20:31:23 chocolate insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.13-7mdk/net/tulip.o:
invalid parameter io 
>Feb 13 20:31:23 chocolate ifup: Delaying eth0 initialization. 
>Feb 13 20:31:23 chocolate network: Bringing up interface eth0 failed 

so something must be wrong with my options. they currently are :

>alias eth0 tulip
>options eth0 io=0x300 options=0 debug=6 

(from /etc/conf.modules). should i leave out the io=0x300 ?
couldn't find anything to jumper on the card, so no choice there.

>0000-001f : dma1
>0020-003f : pic1
>0040-005f : timer
>0060-006f : keyboard
>0070-007f : rtc
>0080-008f : dma page reg
>00a0-00bf : pic2
>00c0-00df : dma2
>00f0-00ff : fpu
>0170-0177 : ide1
>01f0-01f7 : ide0
>0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
>0376-0376 : ide1
>0378-037a : parport0
>03c0-03df : vga+
>03f0-03f5 : floppy
>03f6-03f6 : ide0
>03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
>03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
>0534-0537 : Crystal audio controller
>ffa0-ffa7 : ide0
>ffa8-ffaf : ide1

however, i think the required iospace is available.
so i go on and load the module by hand :

>insmod tulip

and get :

>Feb 13 20:51:24 chocolate kernel: tulip.c:v0.91g 7/16/99
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov 
>Feb 13 20:51:24 chocolate kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at
0xea00, 00:A0:CC:5B:88:29, IRQ 11. 
>Feb 13 20:51:24 chocolate kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000
status 7829 advertising 01e1. 

seems o.k. ?

then i go :

>ifup eth0

nothing in /var/log/messages

ping to the localhost gives :

>PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.3 ms
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms
>64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms<>
>
>--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
>7 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 0% packet loss
>round-trip min/avg/max = 0.1/0.1/0.3 ms

(is that any useful ?)

however :

>PING 141.84.48.214 (141.84.48.214): 56 data bytes
>ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
>ping: wrote 141.84.48.214 64 chars, ret=-1
>ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
>ping: wrote 141.84.48.214 64 chars, ret=-1
>ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
>ping: wrote 141.84.48.214 64 chars, ret=-1

>--- 141.84.48.214 ping statistics ---
>3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

so i can't seem to get outside.

could i learn anything from this ?

>tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
>Index #1: Found a Lite-On 82c168 PNIC adapter at 0xea00.
>Lite-On 82c168 PNIC chip registers at 0xea00:
>  00008000 01ff0000 b5c40400 004fa010 004fa210 02660010 814c2002 0001ebef
>  00000000 00000000 004fa2a0 004fa2a0 00000025 00000000 00000000 10000001
>  00000000 00000000 f0041385 000000bf 60960021 004fa200 009e1010 0001e878
>  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> Port selection is MII, half-duplex.
> Transmit started, Receive started, half-duplex.
>  The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
>  The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
>  The transmit threshold is 72.

oh, the card works just fine under win98, the line light is constantly on
and the act light blinking busily. any ideas ?

very possible this is completely trivial if not plain stupid, but i'd
really appreciate any hints.

many thanks in advance

ingo

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