sitecom ethernet does not function

edward prive <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:01:51 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.tulip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello, could somebody help me with an install of my ethernet-card.
I have some problems installing my Sitecom ethernet-card under Linux. It 
works fine under Windows (it is sending this mail okay ;-} ), so it 
can't be the card itself.

card:
Sitecom PCI Fast 10/100 Ethernetcard Adapter LN-020
A tulip-driver should be used for this, it was already installed on the 
computer in:
/lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/tulip.o

I did /sbin/depmod -a and altered the conf.modules (alias eth0 tulip ; 
options tulip etc.) as mentioned in the installation guide.

A grep from boot.msg shows this:
Configured serial ports
doneRunning /etc/init.d/boot.local
doneCreating /var/log/boot.msg
doneEnabling syn flood protectiondone
Disabling IP forwardingdone
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Boot logging started at Sun Oct 19 17:18:03 2003
Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5
Starting personal-firewall (initial) [active]done
Initializing random number generatordone
insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o: invalid 
parameter parm_debug
insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/net/tulip/tulip.o: insmod 
eth0 failed
DHCLIENT: The device  eth0 is not available at the moment.
DHCLIENT: Please check if the driver is set up correctly.
Starting RPC portmap daemondone
Starting SSH daemondone

Okay, maybe this file is too old (?) .I tried to make the tulip.c again 
but this failed because it included "/linux" h-files which is not 
allowed. I don't know how to overcome this problem thus left it at this.

I did make tulip-diag and run the program and the following output was 
generated. I don't know how to interpret this but maybe somebody can:
root@linux:/home/edward/tulip/diag > tulip-diag -f
tulip-diag.c:v2.06 1/8/2001 Donald Becker ([email protected])
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a ADMtek AL985 Centaur-P adapter at 0x6800.
 Comet duplex is reported in the MII status registers.
 Transmit started, Receive started, full-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Transferring Rx frame into memory'.
  The Tx process state is 'Closing Tx descriptor'.
  PCI bus error!: Unknown 7.
  The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward.
 Interrupt sources are pending!  CSR5 is ffffffff.
   Tx done indication.
   Tx complete indication.
   Tx out of buffers indication.
   Transmit Jabber indication.
   Link passed indication.
   Tx FIFO Underflow indication.
   Rx Done indication.
   Receiver out of buffers indication.
   Receiver stopped indication.
   Receiver jabber indication.
   Link changed indication.
   Timer expired indication.
   Link failed indication.
   PCI bus error indication.
   Early Rx indication.
  Comet MAC address registers ffffffff ffffffff
  Comet multicast filter ffffffffffffffff.
WARNING: The EEPROM is missing or erased!
 Use '-a' or '-aa' to show device registers,
     '-e' to show EEPROM contents, -ee for parsed contents,
  or '-m' or '-mm' to show MII management registers.
root@linux:/home/edward/tulip/diag>

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