Intel EtherExpressPro 100 32bit Cardbus

[A James Lewis]

A typo in the driver?

> > eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0x400, EEPROM not present,
00:4C:69:6E:75:79, IRQ 3.

The temporary station address is 00:4C:69:6E:75:79 = 0:L:i:n:u:y  Should
this not be 00:4C:69:6E:75:78 = 0:L:i:n:u:x   ???

Just wondering.

James

On Thu, 6 May 1999, Donald Becker wrote:

> On Thu, 6 May 1999, Nick Birkett wrote:
> 
> > Subject: Intel EtherExpressPro 100 32bit Cardbus
> > 
> > I have been trying to use an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 32 Bit Cardbus ethercard
> > under Kernel 2.2.5 (RedHat 6.0).
> 
> This was discussed two or three weeks ago.
> 
> > tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> > eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0x400, EEPROM not present, 00:4C:69:6E:75:79, IRQ 3.
> 
> The problem is the "EEPROM not present" message.
> There is an EEPROM on the board, but it's not programmed with the station
> address or a media table.
> 
> Note that your temporary station address is ASCII ;->.
> 
> I can provide a substitute media table (actually, Intel should do this), but
> I need someone to experiment with their card first.
> 
> > However when trying to send any packets an icmp destination unreachable error
> > is obtained.
> 
> This is an unrelated routing problem.  Add a default (aka gateway) route.
> 
> > Here is the output of tulip-diag :
> > 
> > [root@ibm0 test]# ./tulip-diag -ef
> > tulip-diag.c:v1.10 4/12/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> > Index #1: Found a Digital DS21143 Tulip adapter at 0x400.
> >  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 threshold is 128.
> >  A simplifed EEPROM data table was found.
> >  The EEPROM does not contain transceiver control information.  
> 
> Use "-ee" to see your full EEPROM contents.
> 
> > [root@ibm0 test]# ./tulip-diag -af
> > tulip-diag.c:v1.10 4/12/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> > Index #1: Found a Digital DS21143 Tulip adapter at 0x400.
> > Digital DS21143 Tulip chip registers at 0x400:
> >   ffa08000 ffffffff ffffffff 00a53810 00a53a10 f0660000 b3862002 fbfffbff
> >   e0000000 ffffcbf8 ffffffff fffe0000 000000c5 ffff0001 fffbff7f 8ff10008
> >  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 threshold is 128.    
> 
> Hmmm, the status actually looks good -- you probably have 100baseTx link
> beat.
> Here is something to try if you don't:
>    tulip-diag -p 0x400 -t 4 -G 0x08af0000
>    tulip-diag -p 0x400 -t 4 -G 0x00a50000
> 
> 
> Donald Becker					  becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
> Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
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> 

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