On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 02:34:34PM -0700, Brett H. Williams wrote: > I recently obtained a B132L machine and have installed debian/stable on it. > Everything went smoothly except for my second network card (PCI). > > I must add that I can't be certain this is parisc specific, and apologize > for my ignorance--I am running out of ideas (and net cards--the first one > I tried uses a driver that doesn't compile under pa-risc (lance)). > > It's a very common card, with the 8139 Realtek chip on it. It loads and > configures using the 8139too module. > > The low-level driver appears to be working as tcpdump indicates that it is > seeing packets fly by, but something is broken somewhere. > > It doesn't respond to a ping, for example, even though tcpdump indicates > the card has seen the request. > > When told to _send_ a ping, it sends one, and receives a response acc. to > tcpdump. However, the ping program itself never acknowledges receipt. > > The built-in ethernet port works just fine when configured exactly the same > way and hooked into the same private network. > > Has anyone here experienced a similar problem? Is there a list of kernel > drivers somewhere that are known to _not_ work on parisc even though they > may work on other platforms? Or is there something else I should be > checking?
My initial guess would be PCI write posting problems. Jeff, have you tried this driver on a machine that would be likely to experience stuff (eg ia64 with an hp chipset, parisc or ppc?) -- "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this subject?" -- Robert Fisk
