From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Mason Subject: Re: Network card driver problem (znb.o/tulip) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:59:36 -0600 Message-ID: <200503211959.36089.jdmason@us.ibm.com> References: <1111346944.1094.91.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kosta Todorovic , Francois Romieu , Ben Greear , jgarzik@pobox.com, tulip-users@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1111346944.1094.91.camel@jzny.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sunday 20 March 2005 01:29 pm, jamal wrote: > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 14:18, Kosta Todorovic wrote: > > > I dont think mii-tool will tell you the truth with these cards. > > > Like i was saying earlier - they use SYM PHYs. > > > > Either way, no traffic moved across them when I tried. > > Probably the stats display is your best bet for debugging. > > > > Does it work on 32 bit machines? I am assuming when you say "64 bit" > > > you mean the architecture not PCI bus. > > > > Yes it does work on 32bit machines, but with the actual znb.o driver > > thats supplied by ZNXY. > > And yes i am refering to architecture and NOT pci bus. > > It works just fine for me with 32 bit machine with the standard tulip > driver(sorry dont have 64 bit - too poor); does it work for you? > i.e i dont use the Znyx driver at all. I always have mine running > 100Mbps FDX. My Linksys NC100 adapter works fine on my Athlon 64 system. So, it is probably an adapter/driver interaction issue, and not a 64bit one. Kosta, Can you confrim that the tulip driver works for you on a 32bit system? > If it works on 32 bit, then it maybe an issue with the tulip driver. > > cheers, > jamal Thanks, Jon