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

["Nishikant Kapoor (H)" <nkapoor@c3ipros.com>]

Tried it with WD80*3 support but then the card is not recognized at boot up.

Thanks
Nishi

TChris Kesler wrote:

> 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
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