Re: Ethernet card config - Bering
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.realtek.devel |
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, David Dannemiller wrote:
> >>> What is the packet count when this happens? ('cat /proc/net/dev/')
...
> > We need the packet count to find if the very first packet had a transmit
> > problem, or some subsequent packet could not be transmitted.
...
> Inter-| Receive | Transmit
> face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
> packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
> lo: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> dummy0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> eth0: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
> 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
OK, this tells us that there were immediate transmit errors.
I suspect the problem is that the card is not in a bus-master slot.
> Both cards are D-Link model DFE-530TX+.
> 00:50:ba:42:c7:b0 is Rev.C1, purchased fall 2000
> 00:50:ba:cc:67:58 is Rev.D2, purchased last week
Thanks for the info. I don't have a full list of when D-Link
changed their PCI ID (primary and subsystem).
> How can I dump the EEPROM contents?
rtl8139-diag -ee
> > Some PCI slots don't support bus masters. That's easy to understand and
> > avoid.
> > Worse, some PCI motherboards (e.g. Abit) share one set of bus master
> > signals between two slots. So a bus master card will work in either
> > slot, but you cannot plug in two bus masters that are simultaneously
> > active.
>
> The PCI and ISA slots are on a riser board. There are 2 ISA slots, 1 PCI
> slot, and 1 slot that can swing either PCI or ISA. A Compaq sticker on the
> board says:
> Replace with COMPAQ Spare
Hmmm, riser cards are almost always the problem, but Compaq equipment is
usually well designed and reliable. I'm not certain which is the case
here.
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