For the benefit of SLUGers...
I *HAD* a problem with a PCI 10/100 card plugging into a NetGear 4
port 10Mbit hub (that also has my cablemodem on it). Here's the
relevant bits from /proc/pci
Bus 0, device 15, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Macronix MX98715 / MX98725 (rev 32).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master
Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
I/O at 0xac00 [0xac01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea001000 [0xea001000].
I've finally gotten off my arse and got that PCI network card
going. The symptom was that the network card could not talk to the
cablemodem (or anything else on the hub) and apon further
investigation the network link light on the card would extinguish when
the network interface was brought *UP* (ie as soon as module
loaded). I suspected that it was incorrectly auto-sensing the media
(something which I've noticed a few times with Netgear hubs) and this
is backed up by /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/tulip.txt
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Known bug(s)
============
This driver's media detection is very simple and sometimes
it causes serious problem. The driver automatically switches
media when it causes timeout. If you want to specify or to fix
a media;
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It goes on with various options that involve recompiling. The date of
the document seems about April this year. The version of tulip.c I
have is tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 so I probably should upgrade or
something to see if the new one auto-senses.
However, for those that aren't into compiling kernels all you need to
do is a bit of a change to /etc/conf.modules
alias sound es1370
#alias eth0 ne } old ISA card
#options ne io=0x300 irq=10 }
alias eth0 tulip } new PCI card
options tulip media=10baseT(forced) } force media type
alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx
# insmod parport_pc io=0x3bc,0x378,0x278 irq=none,7,auto
# see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt
Oh yeah.. the last bit will fix your parrallel port under RedHat 6.1 /
6.2 if you haven't managed to get it working.
Download speed has now improved quite a bit over the old NE2000
compatible ISA card. From about 80Kbytes/sec to 135Kbytes/sec from
mirror.arrnet.edu.au over Bigpond Cable.
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