[tulip] device or resource busy

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:39:01 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Hank Barta wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> > ADMtek has recently released a new 1/10-PNA (with 10/100) version of the
> > Centaur.  This new chip is only support by the privately released version.
...
> tulip.c:v0.92n 11/3/2000  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> eth0: ADMtek Centaur-P rev 17 at 0xd0046000, 45:BA:45:BA:45:BA, IRQ 15.
> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 786d advertising 01e1.
> 
>     Is that what this is? If so, I'd be glad to help test. At

No, this looks like a standard non-HPNA Centaur chip, albeit with a bogus
EEPROM.

> [root@pswin /root]# /home/hbarta/download/linux/kernel/tulip/x/tulip-diag 
> tulip-diag.c:v2.04 9/26/2000 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
...
>  The Comet MAC registers are ba45ba45 ffffba45 filter 8000000000000000.
> WARNING: The EEPROM is missing or erased!

Evil, evil, evil.

What does tulip-diag -ee report?
Who makes this card?  Does it appear to have an EEPROM?

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