Re: A 3c905B behaving strange
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Antti T J Granqvist wrote: > I am running a Linux RH7.3 on pc server 330 on my local subnet. On the > subnet is also an adsl connected Linux RH7.3 router and a windows NT4 > workstation. Pc server has an on-board nic and a pci nic (3c905B, eth0), > which is currently active. Pc server also runs samba and acts as pdc. > > Now, when I do filetransfers FROM nt4 to pcserver330, either through > filemanager or sftp2 those sessions hang. I found the following mailing > list thread, that fits exactly to my symptoms: > http://samba.cadcamlab.org/lists/samba/Feb2002/00411.html Woah! That's significantly wrong! All PCI 2.0 and later slots must be bus-master capable. The only cheats are some motherboards that share a single set of bus-master lines between two slots. Obviously, only one bus master can be used in that pair of slots, although nominally both are "bus master capable". I doubt that this is your problem. > I've tried following solutions without success: > - Setting parameters on 3c905B using vortex_diag and mii_diag from > http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html What parameters did you set? Setting parameters is far more likely to break something than to fix a problem. > Mysteriously enough filetransfers work ok when doing between > a) the router and pcserver > b) the ntworkstation and router That strong hints that the NIC is working OK. > Has anyone faced similar problems? Do I have to buy a ISA nic? > > Btw. Any idea why the 3c905B floods ethernet at boot until Linux kernel > has initialized it? It shouldn't -- when are you seeing this? Warm boot? From what OS? > 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html > 00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xa000. Vers LK1.1.16 Grrrr, there should be more messages here. [[ Andrew? Bogdan? This may be some distribution turning down the message level. ]] > Transceiver type in use: 10baseT. > MAC settings: full-duplex. Are you forcing full duplex? If so, why? > [root@fisrv002 root]# ./mii-diag -sf > Using the default interface 'eth0'. > Basic registers of MII PHY #0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000. Something is wrong there... -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 _______________________________________________ vortex mailing list [email protected] http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex