Re: 3c59x gives HWaddr FF:FF:...

[Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>]

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 00:05, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> > > What happens ? Any solution available ?
> > 
> > The eeprom wasn't powered up.
> > 
> > Please take the 2.4.20 3c59x.c and place that into the 2.5 tree and confirm
> > that it does the same thing (it will).> 
> 
> Hum, I suppose you want to say take the _2.5_ one and put into my _2.4_ tree ?
> Some previous answer also talked about a more recent version in -ac.
> (btw, can 2.5 be useful for something ? does not the driver depend on a new
> arch of, for example, the PCI layer ? )
> 
> > Then try disabling APCI and/or otherwise fiddling with your power management
> > options (maybe in BIOS too).> 
> 
> I don't build ACPI, just APM power-off (SMP box).
> Will take a look at 2.4-ac (it looks like the most similar thing to what I have)
> and to 2.5.

I had exactly the same issue as you, but this time it was on my laptop
when using a 3CCFE575CT CardBus 10/100 NIC. The only solution I found
was to use SourceForge's PCMCIA-CS instead of the built-in PCMCIA
support.

I tracked down the problem to PCI resource allocation, although never
knew what was causing it: the CardBus bridge was using the PCI subsystem
to allocate resources for my CardBus NIC, but it failed and tried to
assign an invalid I/O range (the starting I/O address was higher than
the ending I/O address). I wasn't able to fix it, but in newer kernel
releases, the problem was fixed.

Now, I've got other problems: the card works correctly and I get full
throughput when sending data using FTP/NFS/SCP (~12MBps) but no more
than 4MBps when receiving files.

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