Re: 3c905 on alpha

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 05 Feb 1998 00:43:20 +0000

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lav@alpha.netis.ru said:
> Here is what the driver says on init:
> eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x8800, 00:60:08:55:8b:5d, IRQ 16
> 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.
> eth0: MII transceiver found at address 24.
> Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
>
> Then while booting it produces an oops and then infinitely dumps some
> data on screen, so I cant see it. The messages were not written to
> log.
>
> It seems that the oops happens on amd startup.
>
> kernel 2.1.85, the driver in the kernel (v0.47H) and separately
> downloaded (v0.49) behave similarly.

I think you'll find that the error is "Scheduling in interrupt", and it starts
as soon as the network is brought up. Try compiling the driver as a module to
check - it should go down as soon as you "ifconfig eth0 up"

There is good news, however: we're using 3c59x.c version 0.46C with a 3c905,
and it seems happy here on an SX164 in 2.1.8[45]

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