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Re: Problems with smc8432 network card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dipl.-Phys. M. Braun)
Mon Sep 30 16:23:54 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 17:23:55 +0200
From: "Dipl.-Phys. M. Braun" <braun@itwm.uni-kl.de>
To: gmitch@woodlea.co.uk
CC: linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu,
braun@itwm.uni-kl.de
Graham Mitchell wrote:
>
> On 26 Sep 96 at 15:32, Dipl.-Phys. M. Braun wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I can't get a smc8432 PCI - network card to work with Linux 2.0.21
> > (tulip driver). Symptoms are:
> >
> > 1) the card works under DOS.
> > 2) it is found by the linux kernel
> > 3) network activity results in kernel messages about choosing
> > different ports.
> > 4) Building a kernel without SMP - support does not make a difference.
>
> I have problems with the tulip driver recognising my DLink DE530CT
> when it's loaded as a module. However, if you build the driver into
> the kernel image, the card is detected fine......
>
> Graham
>
I got a smc8432 card working just fine with Linux 2.0.21 in a
P90 - computer, so it probably is a HW/BIOS configuration problem.
There is something in the boot logs for the 2PPro which I don't
understand:
Boot messages:
tulip.c:v0.10 8/11/95 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
+0.72 4/17/96 http://www.dsl.tutics.tut.ac.jp/~linux/tulip
eth0: smc8432 (DEC 21041 Tulip) at 0x7c00, 00:00:c0:dc:ee:ce, IRQ 10
Output of ``cat /proc/pci''
Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Ethernet controller: DEC DC21041 (rev 17).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0x7c80.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfebeef80.
The values for I/O differ and the number 0x7c80 is also reported by
the dos configuration program. These numbers are the same on the
working P90 where I/O is at 0x6100.
Any clues?
Thanks in advance,
Martin Braun
(braun@itwm.uni-kl.de)
> Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
