Re: DFE 570 TX not working.

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Rodrigo Severo wrote:

> I'm just trying to make a DFE 570 TX (4 ports board) work under Linux 
> Kernel 2.4.23. The board goes up but I can't ping anything. I don't even 
> get a "Destination unreacheable" error message"!

What driver version are you using, and what is the detection message?

> tulip-diag.c:v2.17 5/6/2003 Donald Becker ([email protected])
> Index #1: Found a Digital DS21143 Tulip adapter at 0x9800.

Is after you have tried to send packets?

> Digital DS21143 Tulip chip registers at 0x9800:
>  0x00: f8208400 ffffffff ffffffff 0e5bd000 0e5bd080 f0660000 320c2002 f3ff8065
>  0x40: e0000000 fffdc3ff ffffffff 00000000 000020c7 ffff0001 ffffffff 8ff10000
>  Port selection is MII, half-duplex.
>  Transmit started, Receive started.
>   The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
>   The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
>   The transmit threshold is 128.

This looks normal.  Specifically, there is not packet waiting to be
transmitted, and interrupts appear to be working.

> I can try Donald's driver but I believe it isn't the recommended
> solution for a 2.4.x kernel. 

It works in many cases where the in-kernel version does not, although this
is not obviously be one of them.

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