Re: [TCLUG:5708] Need help in setting up NIC

[Chris Kesler <chris@pconline.com>]

Try setting it up as a Western Digital 80x3.

On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Kapoor, Nishikant X wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I am having some problems in installing a 'SMC Elite 16T' NIC card in my PC
> running RH5.1, kernel 2.2.2 and would appreciate if someone can help me get
> it going.
> 
> The NIC card is recognized during boot up: 
> Apr 30 05:10:16 genx kernel: smc-ultra.c:v2.00 6/6/96 Donald Becker
> (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> Apr 30 05:10:16 genx kernel: eth0: SMC Ultra at 0x340, 00 00 C0 A2 EA 97,
> IRQ 10 memory 0xc8000-0xcbfff.
> 
> But, dmesg shows lots of these error messages:
> eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x43, t=20500.
> 
> Linux-networking newsgroup makes it sound like an IRQ conflict but looking
> through the IRQs, there doesn't seem to be any conflicts.
> nkapoor:/home/nkapoor> cat /proc/interrupts 
>            CPU0       
>   0:     753300          XT-PIC  timer
>   1:       7973          XT-PIC  keyboard
>   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
>   3:     264497          XT-PIC  serial
>   5:          4          XT-PIC  soundblaster
>  10:          0          XT-PIC  SMC Ultra
>  12:     365279          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
>  13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
>  14:      13874          XT-PIC  ide0
>  15:         48          XT-PIC  ide1
> NMI:          0
> ERR:          0
> 
> nkapoor:/home/nkapoor> ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C0:A2:EA:97
>           inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:13053 dropped:0 overruns:39
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x350 Memory:c8000-cc000 
> 
> *** Base address in 'dmesg' being different from base address in 'ifconfig'
> is normal; says Ethernet HOWTO ***
> 
> Does anyone know what could be the problem here ?
> 
> Thanks
> Nishi
> --People who live in windowed environments shouldn't cast pointers--
> mailto:nishikant.x.kapoor@nspco.com   http://www.c3ipros.com/nkapoor
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