RE: Problems with 3c920, vortex and a 10baseT only router

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Donald Becker wrote:

>What driver version are you using?

According to the file 3c59x.c and system logs, the driver is v.099Xf
11/17/2002

>What is the detection message?

The system logs say:

Dec  2 16:59:57 Quevedo kernel: pci-scan.c:v1.11 8/31/2002  Donald Becker
<[email protected]> http://www.scyld.com/linux/drivers.html
Dec  2 16:59:57 Quevedo kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99Xf 11/17/2002 Donald Becker,
[email protected]
Dec  2 16:59:57 Quevedo kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Dec  2 16:59:57 Quevedo kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80,
00:08:74:e2:cd:e0, IRQ 11
Dec  2 16:59:57 Quevedo kernel:   8K buffer 5:3 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Dec  2 16:59:57 Quevedo kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 24,
status 7809.
Dec  2 16:59:58 Quevedo kernel:   Using bus-master transmits and whole-frame
receives.
Dec  2 16:59:58 Quevedo kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
Dec  2 16:59:58 Quevedo kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Dec  2 16:59:58 Quevedo kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.0
Dec  2 16:59:58 Quevedo kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.1
Dec  2 16:59:58 Quevedo kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.2
Dec  2 16:59:58 Quevedo kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.1

Using vortex-diag -a shows:

[root@Quevedo mamarin]# vortex-diag -a
vortex-diag.c:v2.12 11/27/2002 Donald Becker ([email protected])
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a 3c905C Tornado 100baseTx adapter at 0xec80.
 Station address 00:08:74:e2:cd:e0.
  Receive mode is 0x07: Normal unicast and all multicast.
The Vortex chip may be active, so FIFO registers will not be read.
To see all register values use the '-f' flag.
Initial window 7, registers values by window:
  Window 0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 adad 00bf ffff 0000.
  Window 1: FIFO FIFO 0700 0000 0000 006e 0000 2000.
  Window 2: 0800 e274 e0cd 0000 0000 0000 0052 4000.
  Window 3: 0000 0184 05ea 0000 000a 0800 0800 6000.
  Window 4: 0000 0000 8000 0ccc 0001 8880 0000 8000.
  Window 5: 1ffc 0000 0000 0600 0807 06de 06c6 a000.
  Window 6: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 c000.
  Window 7: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 e000.
Vortex chip registers at 0xec80
  0xEC90: **FIFO** 00000000 00000007 *STATUS*
  0xECA0: 00000020 1e121a70 00080000 00001404
  0xECB0: 00000000 c2323dce 1e121800 00080004
  0xECC0: 004f58eb 00000000 000000b7 00000000
  0xECD0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
  0xECE0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
  0xECF0: 00001000 00000000 00000000 00000100
  DMA control register is 00000020.
   Tx list starts at 1e121a70.
   Tx FIFO thresholds: min. burst 256 bytes, priority with 128 bytes to
empty.
   Rx FIFO thresholds: min. burst 256 bytes, priority with 128 bytes to
full.
   Poll period Tx 6400 ns.,  Rx 0 ns.
   Maximum burst recorded Tx 0,  Rx 0.
 Indication enable is 06c6, interrupt enable is 06de.
 No interrupt sources are pending.
 Transceiver/media interfaces available:  100baseTx 10baseT.
Transceiver type in use:  Autonegotiate.
 MAC settings: half-duplex.
 Station address set to 00:08:74:e2:cd:e0.
 Configuration options 0052.

>What are the error counts in /proc/net/dev?

Inter-|Receive                                                   |Transmit
 face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
    lo:       0       0    0    0    0     0          0         0        0
0    0    0    0     0       0          0
  eth0:    2804      29    3    0    0     5          0         0     8434
88    0    0    0     0       4          0


There is no error in the logs of the system regarding eth0 (only an
intermitent issue with sound-slot-0).