From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Malcolm Beattie Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 18:27:05 +0000 Subject: hme on SunSwift card won't talk Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller writes: > Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 10:37:54 +0000 (GMT) > From: Malcolm Beattie > > It was detected as eth0 successfully (the onboard hme was detected > as eth1) but it didn't seem to be able to receive packets > properly. tcpdump from the remote side showed it sending out arp > queries and showed the corect reply being sent back but the ultra > just kept sending out arp queries as if it hadn't received > anything. The card itself works fine with Solaris. I ended up > removing the card completely after which an installation went fine > with the on-board hme (apart from later non-network problems that I > mention in the other message). > > There were some problems with scsi/eth PCI cards on Ultra5's earlier, > when was the most recent kernel you have tried with the card in the > machine? We believe this particular to be fixed by now. Now that I have ultralinux installed and the SunSwift card back in, I can confirm the problem: kernel 2.1.25, driver: sunhme.c:v1.2 10/Oct/96 David S. Miller (davem@caipfs.rutgers.edu) With the cable plugged into eth0 (the SunSwift hme), no data gets sent down the wire when networking is configured. With the cable plugged into eth1 (the on-board hme), everything works fine. The sunhme detects linkbeat and negotiates speed/duplexness fine with both interfaces. It just won't talk down the Sunswift interface. If you want details of any data from /proc/openprom or such like then I can now get it for you. --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services