Re: Linux 1.3.3 bug report

Jeff Uphoff (juphoff@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu)
27 Jun 1995 09:13:15 GMT


"LH" == Liam Hudson <hudsonl@alpha2> writes:

LH> Have been using SMC EtherPower PCI Ethernet Card succesfully
LH> for about 4 weeks now using the 1.2.x kernels. However changing
LH> over to the 1.3.x kernels causes the kernel to hang during boot up...

LH> Jun 19 14:52:34 hudsonpc kernel: eth0: tulip_open() irq 9.
LH> Jun 19 14:52:34 hudsonpc kernel: eth0: CSR12 is ffffffc4.
LH> Jun 19 14:52:34 hudsonpc kernel: eth0: Done tulip_open(), CSR0 fff84800, CSR13 ffffef03.
LH> Jun 19 14:52:34 hudsonpc kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, switching to AUI media.

LH> Gets to here and then just stays there... Not Good !

LH> Any Advice??

If you're using 10Base2, try this (from Don Becker's WWW page):

--- tulip.c-0.05.dist Tue Jun 6 04:22:10 1995
+++ tulip.c-0.05 Mon Jun 26 14:50:56 1995
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@

/* Turn on the xcvr interface. */
outl(0x00000000, ioaddr + CSR13);
- outl(0x00000004, ioaddr + CSR13);
+ outl(0x0000000d, ioaddr + CSR13);

/* Start the chip's Tx and Rx processes. */
outl(0xfffe2002, ioaddr + CSR6);

Worked for me (1.3.3)!

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