Re: Troubles with DEC 21143 Nics (adaptec ana-6922), tulip driver,

Larry Sendlosky (larry@scrugs.lkg.dec.com)
Wed, 2 Jun 99 10:10:04 EDT


Xavier,

Try this:

1) First get the newest tulip.c driver, V0.91 or maybe higher now.

2) Configure tulip driver as a module.
(make sure you do 'make modules; make modules_install' after
rebuilding kernel)

3) In /etc/modules.conf add:

alias eth1 tulip
alias eth2 tulip
options tulip options=5,5 debug=1

This will use the tulip driver for eth1 and eth2 and put them in
100Mb/Full Duplex (option 5). For other settings look at the
beginning of tulip.c.

We've seen some flakiness(?) with 21143's trying to get them to do
100Mb/FD. 21140-AF's work much better.

Hope this helps

larry

> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth1: Digital DS21142/3 Tulip at 0xdc80, 00 00 d1 1d 41 c4, IRQ 10.
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth1: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth1: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth1: ***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found!
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth2: Digital DS21142/3 Tulip at 0xdc00, EEPROM not present, 00 00 d1 1d 41 c5, IRQ 10.
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth2: Controller 1 of multiport board.
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth2: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth2: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
> Jun 2 11:32:33 pc-xb kernel: eth2: ***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found!
>
> Even if my card is connected to the network hub (100Mbit or 10Mbit) the
> link led doesn't light and ifconfig eth1 up doesn't help...
>
> Any hints about this problem ?

______________________________________________________________________
Larry Sendlosky AMT
larry@scrugs.lkg.dec.com (978) 506-6640 Compaq
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