Re: Further on P4R800-VM and 3c59x

[ sorry for the late reply, yesterday was holiday in Germany... ]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Andrej Prsa wrote:

>   options 3c59x debug=6

If you use the Scyld driver, you have to set "debug" to 31 to get all 
messages...

> In both pinging cases /proc/interrupts on the laptop doesn't change. The
> laptop card is a SiS7012, which works without issues with other cards.

That's strange, but it has nothing to do with 3c59x. So let's move on :-)

> Thus I suspect receiving is ok, but sending doesn't work, right?

Yes, all the data that you have sent suggest this. I have to go through 
the documentation and the Tx initialization code in the driver to try to 
see what could go wrong for these cards. Given that one of the previous 
posters indicated trying to use the driver distributed with the kernel 
with the same results, I can concur that the problem is not related to 
Tx descriptor polling. But that's about it :-(

> was checking whether self-pinging produces any eth0: logs 

It shouldn't, it is using the "lo" interface.

> Any certain way to make sure?

Well, "cat /proc/interrupts" :-)
If the there's a line like:

11:         30          XT-PIC  eth0, sym53c8xx, usb-ohci

then IRQ 11 is shared between the network card, a SCSI adapter and an USB 
adapter.

> 16:03:36 eth0: Setting promiscuous mode.
> 16:03:36 device eth0 entered promiscous mode
> 16:03:52 device eth0 left promiscous mode

It's the result of running "tcpdump" which puts the interface into 
promiscuous mode to be able to read all packets that arrive on the cable, 
not only those destined to this computer. Absolutely normal.

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