On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, pa3gcu wrote:
>
> Ken, you did mention the name of the card you use but i have forgotten, i do
> remember it "not" ringing any bells with me and you did mention about reading
> some doco on it.
> Now could it be that your make and type of card needs to be set into
> full/half duplex by way of modprobe options, ? does it just have just a
> twisted pair socket or does it have a coax connector as well.??
>
> I remember once haing a NE2000 compatable card here which i had to use
> windows to set it to use the coax connector instead of the twisted pair.
> I am not saying this is your problem, i am fishing and at a loss just like
> Ray.
>
Richard, sorry about the delay replying, I've had an "interesting" week,
although this has nothing to do with my network. The card is by Netgear,
part of an SB105 Network Starter Kit. It uses the Natsemi driver (FA311, I
think). It's straight 10/100 Base-T twisted pair. I've checked the kernel
docs, but there is nothing about options for the natsemi module. I had a
look at natsemi.c, but the only options I can see seem to be to turn on
debugging mode.
Although using a known good cable doesn't help, I still think this is more
of a hardware problem than software. According to linux, the interface is
up, just not passing any packets. From this I deduce that the io base
address is suitable, otherwise the interface wouldn't be regarded as up ?
What really gets me is that for the other machines my hub shows a
connection at a very early stage of booting up, well before eth0 is
brought up, whereas this one never makes the LED light.
Oh well, off to search google some more about this. I'm going away next
week, but I'll let the list know if/when I solve this.
Ken
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