Re: Netgear FA511 on RedHat 7.3

On 16 May 2003, Jared Warren wrote:

> > First, verify that 'mii-diag eth1' works with the device -- it should
> > (and will not crash the machine).
...
> [root@linuxlt /tmp]# mii-diag eth1
> Basic registers of MII PHY #1:  1100 786d 001d 2411 05e1 0021 0004 2001.
>  Basic mode control register 0x1100: Auto-negotiation enabled.
>  You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
>  Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat  (no
> autonegotiation).
>    End of basic transceiver information.

OK, this verifies that the transceiver is working.

> With kern.* sent to /dev/console in syslog.conf, I don't see anything on
> the console between when I do ifconfig eth1 up and the lockup (most of
> the time, I don't even get my command prompt back before I lock up).

Enable all messages in the driver
  mii-diag eth1 --msg-level 0xfffffff

Disconnect the Ethernet cable.
This should prevent any Rx packets, and thus bus-master requests.
[[ Note that this will only work with ASIX and Comet chips.  Other chips
uses a pseudo-packet to set the MAC address and multicast filter and
thus immediately trigger a bus-master transfer. ]]

Verify that you see the start-up messages.

Re-connect the cable to see if you get an interrupt message from the
link change indication.

> I only have one other card.  It's packaged as a "Hawking Technology
> PN672TX," but is identified by card services as a "Linksys EtherFast
> PCMPC200 v2" - is this one worth testing with?

It's basically the same chip, but it's worth testing.

The driver should the card, but you may need to add the ID to the PCMCIA
table to tell the PCMCIA system that the card is handled by the tulip driver.

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