Re: Re: Zoom Internal Cable Modem

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Alistair Moir wrote:

> Further to my original email here are four tulip-diaf -fa outputs the
> first shows the card after inital set up, all is running well, the
> other three are when the card is down.
..
> The messages in the log are :-
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> eth0: transmit timed out, status f4260000, CSR12 ffffffff, resetting...

What driver version is this?

> > I run debian with 2.4.22 and I've tried the latest drivers from
> > www.sycd.com.  No go, the card hangs with either driver.  The new
> > drivers seem better but I've no imperical evidence of this.

What is the message when the driver from the scyld.com set stops
working?

> > Here's the results of insmod with the old driver
> > Nov 27 20:44:35 galaga kernel: Linux Tulip driver version
> > 0.9.15-pre12 (Aug 9, 2002)
> > Nov 27 20:44:35 galaga kernel: eth1: Conexant LANfinity rev 8 at
> > 0xe800, EEPROM not present, 00:4C:69:6E:75:79, IRQ 7.

This is bogus -- the driver did not read the EEPROM settings and is
thus forced to use a generated MAC address ("\0Linux").

> > Here's the results of insmod with the new driver
> > 
> > Nov 27 20:38:56 galaga kernel: tulip.c:v0.97 7/22/2003  Written by
> > Donald Becker <[email protected]>
> > Nov 27 20:38:56 galaga kernel:  
> > http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> > Nov 27 20:38:56 galaga kernel: eth1: Conexant LANfinity rev 8 at
> > 0xe892c000, 00:40:36:09:52:32, IRQ 7.

This is a reasonable-looking MAC address.
What were the other messages?

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