Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
>You can always try writing all the registers with "good" values. No good - nothing actually changes except 16 bits at 0x6C, and that doesn't change to anything useful. >> Is there a reset 'thing' for thses chips, that sets them back to >> factory tests (like switching them off)? >[snip] >>

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I noticed that the mac address was stored in the registers and > eprom. I guess it would not be as easy as just writing the mac > back in the blank eprom and registers? What my changed via-diag tries to do is to tell the chip to reload things from

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread T . Stewart
On 3 Feb 2001, at 14:02, Urban Widmark wrote: > This is intresting. Your card reports that it is stopped while the > other report show normal values on most things. Does this change if > you try and send something (like a ping)? Common to both reports is > that the transceivers don't respond. >

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: > Do you want me to try this again, after first setting the card into > non-working condition? Yes, the idea was to start from non-working, test -I and then ifconfig down/up. Getting the working card to work is a much simpler problem :) /Urban - To

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
>The attached patch for the via-daig program plays with a few registers. > >Run it as 'via-diag -aaeemm -I' then do a 'ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig >eth0 up' and see if anything happens. OK, after a little trouble applying the patch, here's what I found: Starting with the card in working

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > VIA VT3065 Rhine-II chip registers at 0xd400 > 0x000: 0804 > > 0x020: 0400 > > 0x040:

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIA VT3065 Rhine-II chip registers at 0xd400 0x000: 0804 0x020: 0400 0x040:

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
The attached patch for the via-daig program plays with a few registers. Run it as 'via-diag -aaeemm -I' then do a 'ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up' and see if anything happens. OK, after a little trouble applying the patch, here's what I found: Starting with the card in working condition,

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: Do you want me to try this again, after first setting the card into non-working condition? Yes, the idea was to start from non-working, test -I and then ifconfig down/up. Getting the working card to work is a much simpler problem :) /Urban - To

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread T . Stewart
On 3 Feb 2001, at 14:02, Urban Widmark wrote: This is intresting. Your card reports that it is stopped while the other report show normal values on most things. Does this change if you try and send something (like a ping)? Common to both reports is that the transceivers don't respond. The

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
You can always try writing all the registers with "good" values. No good - nothing actually changes except 16 bits at 0x6C, and that doesn't change to anything useful. Is there a reset 'thing' for thses chips, that sets them back to factory tests (like switching them off)? [snip] So.How

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread T . Stewart
On 2 Feb 2001, at 20:17, Urban Widmark wrote: > > > >I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot > > >(via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald Becker) but says the > > >hardware address (mac address?) is 00-00-00-00-00-00. > > This is a good example of what is missed by

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread Urban Widmark
> >I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- > >rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald Becker) but says the > >hardware address (mac address?) is 00-00-00-00-00-00. This is a good example of what is missed by not copying the exact message. For example, mine says:

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread Jonathan Morton
>I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Rev A, PCI ethernet card, but it refuses >to work. > >I have looked at http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci >which sugests using the via-rhine driver. > >I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- >rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald

DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread T . Stewart
hi, I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Rev A, PCI ethernet card, but it refuses to work. I have looked at http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci which sugests using the via-rhine driver. I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald

DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread T . Stewart
hi, I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Rev A, PCI ethernet card, but it refuses to work. I have looked at http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci which sugests using the via-rhine driver. I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread Jonathan Morton
I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Rev A, PCI ethernet card, but it refuses to work. I have looked at http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#pci which sugests using the via-rhine driver. I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald Becker)

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread Urban Widmark
I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald Becker) but says the hardware address (mac address?) is 00-00-00-00-00-00. This is a good example of what is missed by not copying the exact message. For example, mine says: eth0: VIA

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-02 Thread T . Stewart
On 2 Feb 2001, at 20:17, Urban Widmark wrote: I did this and compiled it into the kernel. It detects it at boot (via- rhine v1.08-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Donald Becker) but says the hardware address (mac address?) is 00-00-00-00-00-00. This is a good example of what is missed by not copying