[tulip] FL6400TX with DS21143 chips does not works corectly.

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:57:24 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Irmantas Gudelis wrote:

> Subject: [tulip] FL6400TX with DS21143 chips does not works corectly.
> 
> I tried 0.92 and 0.92t tulip drivers, but both fails on Compex FL6400TX
> card.

What is the detection message?
How does the driver fail?
What does 'tulip-diag' report?

> After sending bigger packet driver reports about link loss and RX
> retries...

I'll need the specific message and error status.

> It is 4 port 10/100 64bit card. It claims to work in 32bit pci slot.

The only known issue with 4 port 21143 cards is the common x86 BIOS bug
that incorrectly assigns IRQs.
Putting 32 bit PCI chips behind is 64->32 PCI bus bridge (a 21152 chip?)
shouldn't impact driver operation.

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