Re: 2.1.120 report [misc. stuff/longish]

Felix von Leitner (leitner@math.fu-berlin.de)
Tue, 8 Sep 1998 23:32:00 +0200


Thus spake Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net):
> c59x.c:v0.99F 8/7/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
> The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device! Updating PCI command
> 0000->0005.
> eth1: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xef00, 00:60:97:7b:34:41, IRQ 5
> 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.
> MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849.
> Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

I think that PCI BIOS statement is harmless.
I don't get it, but my card is not working, too.
2.1.119 works fine, 2.1.120 does nothing at all on the ethernet. I have
another machine connected via a crossed Cat5 cable to a lowly 10BaseT
NE2k card with a tcpdump running, and 2.1.120 does nothing at all on the
Ethernet. ping and tcpdump of course show me the packets on the 2.1.120
machine, but the other machine does not do anything.

While we are at it: Does anyone know what funky chipset a goldstar
el-cheapo "NE2K PCI" card has? I'm asking because the NE2K PCI driver
does not detect it and it was dirt cheap and promised to do Fast
Ethernet.

> 4. unmounting / at shutdown/reboot doesn't work.

> I've heard mention of this on the list, but haven't heard any solutions
> for it yet. So this is just a "me too!".

Works fine for me.

Felix

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