Re: smc1244TX

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Uxio Faria wrote:

> I have the SMC1244TX board:
> 
> # lspci 
> 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)
> #lspci -n 
> ...
> 00:0d.0 Class 0200: 1317:0985 (rev 11)
> ...

Just the info we need... thanks.

> OK the diag tool shows this:
> 
> # ./tdiag -aaem
> tulip-diag.c:v2.17 5/6/2003 Donald Becker ([email protected])
>  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Index #1: Found a ADMtek AL985 Centaur-P adapter at 0xec00.
...
>  Transmit stopped, Receive stopped.
>   The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
>   The Tx process state is 'Stopped'.
>   The transmit threshold is 128.
>  Interrupt sources are pending!  CSR5 is fc06c812.
>    Tx complete indication.
>    Link passed indication.
>    Timer expired indication.
>    Early Rx indication.

You have an IRQ problem.

> The problem i have is that board not transmits well. Pings and short
> udp packets ( like dns lookups ) works well but TCP not.

The pings are only "working" because the card receives a few packets
when trying to recover from the error.  I'm guessing that you have a lot
of error reports in the logs.

> OK. the first thing that is "rare" is the MAC address that ifconfig
> shows on screen, which is not correct as in diag tool. 

What driver version are you using?
What is the detection message (shown when booting)?

> I suppose that this board is a little different to similar others.

Not likely: there is only one way to put a Comet chip on a board.

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