From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mgw-x1.nokia.com (mgw-x1.nokia.com [131.228.20.21]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9270F4829 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 02:30:32 -0700 (MST) Received: from esvir05nok.ntc.nokia.com (esvir05nokt.ntc.nokia.com [172.21.143.37]) by mgw-x1.nokia.com (Switch-2.2.1/Switch-2.2.0) with ESMTP id h0G9TZ006678 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:29:35 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 11:30:28 +0200 From: Nahkola Mikko To: ext Grant Grundler Cc: Nahkola Mikko , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Interesting network card ... Message-ID: <20030116093028.GD17760@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> References: <20030115085619.GA17760@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> <20030116021111.GD8543@dsl2.external.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <20030116021111.GD8543@dsl2.external.hp.com> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 07:11:11PM -0700, ext Grant Grundler wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:56:20AM +0200, Nahkola Mikko wrote: > > What's the deal with the various HP-branded tulip-based NICs? Are they > > expected to "just work" or what? > yes. Well, at least then there's hope in trying to get it to work ... > > I found one that sure doesn't, but then > > again, but my kernel isn't actually new ... (2.4.18-32 packaged) > ...a newer kernel would be more interesting. Recommendations? For some reason I haven't managed to get a working kernel by building from source ... I do still have a 2.4.19-pa24 that I did get to boot even if it wasn't all that good. I mean, at least the .18 has all the basic functionality that I tend to use. Could be because I still have only the Debian-packaged tools. I haven't taken the time to run after the toolchain development ... didn't even get a newer modutils package yet. Any ready-built package that I should try, or sould I just pull a newer (which version?) toolchain and compile from sources (which version?) - I haven't really paid enough attention to that stuff lately... > > The card is the HP ANA-6911A/AUI (yes, it's a 10/100BT with coax and > > AUI too), part# A3738-60001, and it _is_ found by the tulip driver, but > > for some reason the driver claims that "no MII transceiver found", > This does sound like a bug (fixed) in the tulip driver relating to > MII initialization. But I'm surprised to see it manifest on a C240. What do you mean, surprised to see it manifest on a C240? How so? > One should be aware that HP sold 4 different flavors of single port > 100BT cards based on tulip chipsets. IIRC, they were: > o PCI "server" > o GSC (card-mode Dino) > o PCI "workstation" > o PCI V-class only > (and an NIO 100BT also that I don't know anything about). This might be the PCI "server" card. Not sure, partsurfer only knows an ANA-6911 without the A and AUI, and not much about that either... and I only see the 4-port cards usually. BTW, the NIO 100BT is an interesting beast. It (or the driver) is the only reason why one of our HP-UX boxes only gets about half an year max uptime usually ... and has other "interesting" "features". > And each had a different HP-UX driver to go with it (btlan3-6). > Eventually all 4 drivers were merged into one but that's still fairly > recent history. Well, recent enough to predate all the entries that partsurfer showed about the ANA-6911. And it was still better than the deal with the EISA drivers - I mean, duh, I did get (the devices, not drivers) lan0 and btlan0 as different adapters once ... Anyway, here's some from lspci and dmesg. The adapter in question is the first one - it usurped eth0 and still didn't go anywhere - and as usual, things got interesting, as the box is a NIS and NFS client... Notably it is a higher revision than the builtin adapter, and therefore I wouldn't expect to need the de4x5 driver. -------------------- # lspci -vvx 01:01.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 1067 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr+ Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- Tre-IN sysadmin