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Sen Cheng sen@nscl.msu.edu
Sat Oct 24 21:02:43 1998


I have a FastEthernet Card with DEC 21143 in my Fujitsu Lifebook 656tx.
Although my ethernet card seems to work fine I always get a lot of TX
errors. And if I choose debug=2 I also get a lot of error messages with
demesg. What I included in this email is just the beginning - it keeps on
going on like that forever.

I got the same problem with v0.89K, v0.89L, and v0.90. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sen

cat /proc/net/ :

Inter-|   Receive                  |  Transmit
 face |packets errs drop fifo frame|packets errs drop fifo colls carrier
    lo:     35    0    0    0    0       35    0    0    0     0    0
  eth0:   9521    0    0    0    0        3  730    0    0     0  730

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This is what I get with dmesg

tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip at 0xec00, 00 00 0e 69 5d cf, IRQ 9.
read_eeprom:
10cf 1010 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0083 0103 0000 690e cf5d 1e00 0000 0800
8604 0002 08ff 00f0 0286 ff01 f008 8600
0402 08ff 00f0 038d 0000 0000 e078 0001
0050 0018 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 2cf6
eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2)
block.
eth0:  Index #1 - Media 10base2 (#1) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2)
block.
eth0:  Index #2 - Media 10baseT-FD (#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2)
block.
eth0:  MII interface PHY 0, setup/reset sequences 0/0 long, capabilities e0
78.
eth0:  Index #3 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
eth0: tulip_open() irq 9.
eth0: Using user-specified media MII.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0 (1).
eth0: Using media type MII, CSR12 is c6.
eth0: 21143 negotiation status 000000c6, MII.
eth0: MII status 782d, Link partner report 01e1, CSR6 320e2002.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffbc00.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffbc00.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffbc00.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffbc00.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffbc00.
eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffbc00.
eth0: 21143 negotiation status 000000c6, MII.
eth0: MII status 782d, Link partner report 01e1, CSR6 320e2002.
eth0: 21143 negotiation status 000000c6, MII.
eth0: MII status 782d, Link partner report 01e1, CSR6 320e2002.

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This is /proc/pci:

PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device  20, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: Neomagic MagicGraph 128ZV (rev 2).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 255.  
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfe800000.
  Bus  0, device  19, function  1:
    CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=64.Max Lat=3.
  Bus  0, device  19, function  0:
    CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1131 (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=64.Max Lat=3.
  Bus  3, device  15, function  0:
    IDE interface: CMD 643 (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 255.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0xecd8.
      I/O at 0xece8.
      I/O at 0x170.
      I/O at 0x374.
      I/O at 0xecf0.
  Bus  3, device  14, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: DEC DC21142 (rev 48).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=165.  Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40.
      I/O at 0xec00.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfedff800.
  Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
    PCI bridge: Intel 82380FB Mobile (rev 1).
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.
  Bus  0, device   1, function  3:
    Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  
  Bus  0, device   1, function  2:
    USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      I/O at 0xf8e0.
  Bus  0, device   1, function  1:
    IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  
      I/O at 0xf8d0.
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    Bridge: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  No bursts.  
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Intel 82439TX (rev 1).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.