PCI NE2000 on Linux SMP box

Akira YOSHIYAMA (yosshy@debian.or.jp)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:40:00 +0900 (JST)

Hi,
I have a PPro x2 SMP box and a PCI NE2000 compatible NIC with VIA
chip. I rebuilt Linux kernel to contain ne2k-pci driver as a module.
I configure as below:

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# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1

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  result:



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# ifconfig -a
...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:05:00:0B:EC  
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          Collisions:0 
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0x7f20 
# cat /proc/interrupts 
           CPU0       CPU1       
  0:      23739      70354    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:        742       2076    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:          0          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  5:          0          1    IO-APIC-edge  soundblaster
 10:        332        937    IO-APIC-edge  aha152x
 12:       1000       2625    IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
 13:          1          0          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:      18178      58411    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 15:       7864      16510    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
 16:         10         11   IO-APIC-level  eth0
NMI:          0
IPI:          0

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  It looks good. But pings for other hosts on the LAN doesn't
  return. In /var/log/syslog:



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Aug 13 22:20:16 localhost kernel: eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. 
Aug 13 22:20:30 localhost last message repeated 14 times
Aug 13 22:20:30 localhost kernel: Socket destroy delayed (r=0 w=384) 
Aug 13 22:20:31 localhost kernel: eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. 
Aug 13 22:21:19 localhost kernel: eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC. 
Aug 13 22:21:22 localhost last message repeated 3 times

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  Why can't? VIA chips doesn't support my SMP mother board? hmm... 
    In my box, NT can't use the NIC as same. But I don't know it's
  because of same problem.


  I guess this is because of:
	1. BIOS problem
	2. NIC problem
	3. ne2k-pci problem
	4. network code problem


  Anyone, advice me, please.
  Thanks for any suggestion.



---
A. Yoshiyama <yosshy@debian.or.jp>


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