Re: Ethernet card problems
Thanks guys, My card works fine nowI rechecked the cable(I hadn't thought this might be a problem as it worked when I booted into W98) and used the dos utility to specify a BNC connector, and now the card works fine Yeeh Manny. Venu wrote: hi manuel i had similar problems ..the solution 1. check the ethernet cable is connected properly (i have this problem 80% of the time !!) 2. make sure ..especially in the case of an ISA card, that u r using the correct IRQ and IO address... use the DOS Utility of the card to check this... as on linux... the card driver sometimes gets installed even if the irq is specified wrongly 3. if the card is a combo BNC + UTP, in some cases, the driver is not able to switch on the correct interface.. so this may be fixed using the Ethernet card DOS utility to specify the same eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k RAM) eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem from this .. the problem may probably be option 2 above... check it out ! let me know how it works out.. cherio venu Hi there, I have an Intel Ether Express 16 ISA card and I'm trying to get it to work with linux. Linux seems to detect the card ok, but after detection on boot up I get the message: eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem The dos diagnostics program for the card indicates that everything is OK, and it seems to work fine with Windows 98I have included my boot message,...followed by the result of ifconfig... Any help is appreciated, Thanx, Manuel -- Memory: sized by int13 088h Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fad40 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb1c0 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1f0 Probing PCI hardware. Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS Memory: 30216k/32768k available (1136k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1032k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29 02:46:13 $ tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x282600 (0x28254c) Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f hdc: IBM-DAQA-32160, 2067MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=4200/16/63, DMA hdd: TATUNG CD-652E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hdc: [PTBL] [525/128/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 12060k swap-space (priority -1) Adding Swap: 16092k swap-space (priority -2) Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k RAM) eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A -- loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:3C:20:89 inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6 Collisions:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Ethernet card problems
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, David Karlin wrote: Hi, I get a similar message when I boot the system with no ethernet cable connected to the ethercard, no matter which card. BTW, I have the same card running in a '386 slink box. No problems. Just thought i'd throw in a word. My card (a 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx according to the boot message) gives the same output whether or not there's a cable plugged in. Maybe it depends on the brand? In particular, it says: eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x6400, 00:10:4b:70:85:5d, IRQ 10 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849. MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7849. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. Now, if only i could get dhcpcd (version 1.3.17pl2-1 from potato) to not wait two minutes on boot when the cord isn't in without completely disabling it...
Re: Ethernet card problems
hi manuel i had similar problems ..the solution 1. check the ethernet cable is connected properly (i have this problem 80% of the time !!) 2. make sure ..especially in the case of an ISA card, that u r using the correct IRQ and IO address... use the DOS Utility of the card to check this... as on linux... the card driver sometimes gets installed even if the irq is specified wrongly 3. if the card is a combo BNC + UTP, in some cases, the driver is not able to switch on the correct interface.. so this may be fixed using the Ethernet card DOS utility to specify the same eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k RAM) eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem from this .. the problem may probably be option 2 above... check it out ! let me know how it works out.. cherio venu Hi there, I have an Intel Ether Express 16 ISA card and I'm trying to get it to work with linux. Linux seems to detect the card ok, but after detection on boot up I get the message: eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem The dos diagnostics program for the card indicates that everything is OK, and it seems to work fine with Windows 98I have included my boot message,...followed by the result of ifconfig... Any help is appreciated, Thanx, Manuel -- Memory: sized by int13 088h Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fad40 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb1c0 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1f0 Probing PCI hardware. Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS Memory: 30216k/32768k available (1136k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1032k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29 02:46:13 $ tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x282600 (0x28254c) Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f hdc: IBM-DAQA-32160, 2067MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=4200/16/63, DMA hdd: TATUNG CD-652E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hdc: [PTBL] [525/128/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 12060k swap-space (priority -1) Adding Swap: 16092k swap-space (priority -2) Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k RAM) eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A -- loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:3C:20:89 inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6 Collisions:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Ethernet card problems
Hi there, I have an Intel Ether Express 16 ISA card and I'm trying to get it to work with linux. Linux seems to detect the card ok, but after detection on boot up I get the message: eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem The dos diagnostics program for the card indicates that everything is OK, and it seems to work fine with Windows 98I have included my boot message,...followed by the result of ifconfig... Any help is appreciated, Thanx, Manuel -- Memory: sized by int13 088h Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fad40 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb1c0 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1f0 Probing PCI hardware. Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS Memory: 30216k/32768k available (1136k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1032k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29 02:46:13 $ tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x282600 (0x28254c) Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f hdc: IBM-DAQA-32160, 2067MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=4200/16/63, DMA hdd: TATUNG CD-652E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hdc: [PTBL] [525/128/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 12060k swap-space (priority -1) Adding Swap: 16092k swap-space (priority -2) Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k RAM) eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A -- loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:3C:20:89 inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6 Collisions:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
RE: Ethernet card problems
Hi, I get a similar message when I boot the system with no ethernet cable connected to the ethercard, no matter which card. BTW, I have the same card running in a '386 slink box. No problems. Feel free to contact me if you have further problems. HTH, --David -Original Message- From: Manuel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 6:33 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Ethernet card problems Hi there, I have an Intel Ether Express 16 ISA card and I'm trying to get it to work with linux. Linux seems to detect the card ok, but after detection on boot up I get the message: eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem The dos diagnostics program for the card indicates that everything is OK, and it seems to work fine with Windows 98I have included my boot message,...followed by the result of ifconfig... Any help is appreciated, Thanx, Manuel -- Memory: sized by int13 088h Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fad40 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb1c0 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1f0 Probing PCI hardware. Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS Memory: 30216k/32768k available (1136k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1032k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29 02:46:13 $ tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x282600 (0x28254c) Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f hdc: IBM-DAQA-32160, 2067MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=4200/16/63, DMA hdd: TATUNG CD-652E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hdc: [PTBL] [525/128/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 12060k swap-space (priority -1) Adding Swap: 16092k swap-space (priority -2) Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k RAM) eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A -- loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:3C:20:89 inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6 Collisions:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
Re: More Ethernet card problems.
[Dale, IMHO debian-user is the appropriate list] Hi, On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Dale Scheetz wrote: [hassle with peecee hardware] Maybe it's an interrupt conflict. I've actually seen interrupt problems with 3c509 cards a couple of times. Interrupt problems are often spurious and give you a hard time figuring out where the problem lies. They are one of the main reasons why PC hardware sucks, PnP is in fact an attempt to alleviate the pain (turns out PnP is often a pain itself, oh well.) Had the PC been specified in the early eighties to use edge-triggered interrupts instead of level-triggered interrupts, you'd have no more interrupt conflicts or shortages. I suspected that the card had, somehow, gotten back into PnP mode, so I ran the 3c5x9setup program again to make sure. All output from this program was the same as before, with no errors. Are you sure, you've got a true PnP 3c509 card? The ones I've come accross had a jumperless mode which is some 3com-proprietary variant of PnP and not really the same. It is sometimes possible that buggy firmware doesn't really disable the PnP or jumperless mode and still listens to PnP commands. It is unlikely however. It is really my guess that you have an interrupt conflict. The situation would then be that some other hardware is trying to use the same interrupt as the 3c509. This confuses the hardware, the driver or even both. Do you run isapnp during boot? Did you set up any PnP cards in /etc/isapnp.conf? If so, then it might be the case that the PnP hardware, before getting configured by isapnp, uses some of the resources the 3c509 is trying to use as well. You can check this by taking out the potentially conflicting hardware or moving the 3c509 to a system without potentially conflicting other hardware. On the possibility that it could be the Windows '95 machine that was at fault (the hub reports all cards active once the Debian box appears to be configured properly), I booted up the Sparc, which is also on the hub, and was able to ping the '95 box, but not the Debian one. If the interrupts are messed up, the kernel never knows when it should let the 3c509 driver talk to the hardware, eg. to respond to ICMP (ping) packets. Even though the card tells the hub it is active, and seems to be functional from the point of view of the driver, ifconfig, route, and the kernel, I can't ping out with it, and the rest of the net can't ping into it. Ifconfig and route and all such tools merely read and write to kernel state tables, there is no actual communication with the card or the network. Ping, traceroute, telnet etc. all do actually generate traffic and it is very well possible that some packets actually get out, you're just not seeing them back. Actually, the card could be seeing them, it just doesn't know how to tell the kernel. You can check this condition by verifying that the light on the back of the card is on, it is a sort of carrier detect flag. If it's on, the card works physically on the network side. I have my son getting me another Ethernet card, so I can swap out and verify that the card _is_ bad, but this is not the most desirable solution. (specially when he tells me that the card I got in the kit, with two cards and a hub for a bit over $100, will cost over $100 all by itself!) Tsss... Get a cheap ne2000 clone. Should be no more than $10 nowadays. At 10% of the cost, you get 10% of the hassle compared to 3Com ISA cards. Or even better, get a PCI ne2000 clone, should cost no more than the ISA one and you no longer have even potential interrupt problems, since the PC designers learned after more than 10 years and designed the PCI bus to use edge-triggered interrupts, so the different slots can share interrupt lines. Cheers, Joost
Ethernet card problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I have just installed he base debian system on a new box, but I can't get the networking to work. I am using the smc_ultra driver, and it finds the card alright, and repports no errors at boot time. According to the ifconfig package counters, all transmittet packages are countet as OK, but all recieved packages are counted as errors. But I see no errorreports anywhere. Does anyone know where to find them, or what to do about it? Thanx for any help. - -- Name: Hakan Ardo E-Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: HTTP://www.ub2.lu.se/~hakan/sig.html Interests: WWW, Programming, 3D graphics Thought for the day: As long as one understands, the spelling does not matter :-) - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAwUBMo9QEyZ+QycbIs2FAQHotQP+PB0zNz9MZToTUQzYxUqU+9IhtxWZmZXs Lql9AqHieZSO5+eFC5jXnR2mLjhSH3fzJWXOjgXJPuVVytbuaNL8SfqHnym7ULjB fhlgV43uF/7uyMvhEEddX4P28/Pway86ZXFFwrqOwBCzdsuMUf8m4oWdbO6hvHfz z+BVz0OJtVg= =AL/b -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
