Billionton LNA-100B

Question: Billionton LNA-100B

Forum: PCMCIA Network Adapter Issues
Date: 1999, Nov 04
From: Markus Troebensberger troebs

Is a driver available for the Billionton LNA-100B ?
Have anyone experience with this card ?
If not:
I will try to write a driver. Have anyone contact to Billionton ?

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It is not a supported card, but...

Re: Question: Billionton LNA-100B (Markus Troebensberger)
Date: 1999, Nov 04
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

The obvious question would be, have you tried adding an entry to /etc/pcmcia/config, to see if any of the existing drivers already work? (the chance that it is actually a new design and needs a new driver to be written from scratch are roughly... zero) -- Dave

Sad: I have testet ...

Re: It is not a supported card, but... (David Hinds)
Date: 1999, Nov 05
From: Markus Troebensberger troebs

I have testet all drivers that i have seen at the other entrys in /etc/pcmcia/config.
3c589_cs, fmvj18x_cs and 3c574_cs:
At boot time these drivers show a MAC (Hardwareaddress) of: 00:00:00:00:00:00 or FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF This is not a correct address. Is'nt it ?
(two high beeps when putting the card into the slot)
The other drivers pcnet_cs, xirc2ps_cs, smc91c92_cs and nmclan_cs:
They beep once high and once low.
What can I do ?
Markus

Question: It nearly works

Re: Question: Billionton LNA-100B (Markus Troebensberger)
Date: 1999, Nov 08
From: Markus Troebensberger troebs

I have probed the pcnet_cs driver. Because i have not found the hardware adress in my card (with memory_cs), i have hardcoded it in config.opts. Now i get a connection, but it is not working very well. I belief there is a interrupt problem or a timimg problem. This is the output from boot, ping and dmesg. Can you pinpoint the problem ? bootmsg: Starting PCMCIA services: modulesLinux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.6 kernel build: 2.0.36 #4 Mon Nov 1 22:57:02 MET 1999 options: [pci] [apm] Intel PCIC probe: TI 1131 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 10, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets host opts [0]: [ring] [clkrun irq 12] [pci + serial irq] [no pci irq] [lat 1 68/176] [bus 32/34] host opts [1]: [ring] [clkrun irq 12] [pci + serial irq] [no pci irq] [lat 1 68/176] [bus 35/37] ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,10,11,15 status change on irq 15 cardmgr. cardmgr[80]: starting, version is 3.0.6 cardmgr[80]: watching 2 sockets cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0 x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. cardmgr[80]: initializing socket 1 cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean. cardmgr[80]: socket 1: Billionton LNA-100B Starting RPC portmap daemoncardmgr[80]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/n et/8390.o' cardmgr[80]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o hw_addr=0x 00,0x10,0x60,0x30,0x01,0x86' eth0: NE2000 Compatible: port 0x300, irq 11, hw_addr 00:10:60:30:01:86 cardmgr[80]: executing: './network start eth0' net_interrupt(): irq 11 for unknown device. Ping Output: pino:~ # ping 192.168.100.20 PING 192.168.100.20 (192.168.100.20): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=10000.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=8 ttl=128 time=8001.1 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=13 ttl=128 time=7000.6 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=21 ttl=128 time=5001.1 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=24 ttl=128 time=4001.9 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=52 ttl=128 time=2000.5 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=62 ttl=128 time=1000.3 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=71 ttl=128 time=1000.4 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=78 ttl=128 time=1000.4 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=83 ttl=128 time=1000.4 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=84 ttl=128 time=1000.3 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=85 ttl=128 time=1002.0 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.20: icmp_seq=88 ttl=128 time=1000.4 ms --- 192.168.100.20 ping statistics --- 92 packets transmitted, 13 packets received, 85% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 1000.3/3308.4/10000.6 ms dmesg: .... eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x3 imr=0x0. eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=200. eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x3 imr=0x0. eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=200. eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x43 imr=0x0. eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x43, t=200. eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x3 imr=0x0. eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=200. lp1 out of paper eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x3 imr=0x0. eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=200. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x02 eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x3 imr=0x0. eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=200. eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x3 imr=0x0. eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=200. -- Markus

So close yet so far?

Re: Question: It nearly works (Markus Troebensberger)
Date: 1999, Nov 20
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

> eth0: Interrupted while interrupts are masked! isr=0x3 imr=0x0. > eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x1, ISR=0x3, t=200. > eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. This chip does not appear to be 100% NE2000 compatible. -- Dave

News: first LNA-100B success

Re: Question: It nearly works (Markus Troebensberger)
Date: 2000, Jun 30
From: Miroslaw Kwasniak mirek

I read about AX88190 problems on many places. I have two different cards, one is Billionton LNA-100B and other Acorp (noname (???) with Zonet MAC address). Acorp still isn't working :(
I'v got working LNA-100B. Currently it has ping time 2/3/10 ms and transfer speed about 500KB/s @ 10tx and 600KB/s @ 100tx/fullduplex on my old laptop 486/66 without RAM cache :( (other end is P200 with tulip based KNE100TX). It works in autonegotiation mode. I'd hot changed standard cable connected to 10tx hub with direct cross cable to other end and mode was switched on the fly from 10tx/HDX to 100tx/FDX without trouble.
Current configuration:
- kernel 2.2.17pre9
- pcmcia-cs 3.3.16
- Billionton src from lna100b.zip: Linux/RedHat_6.0/LNA100SR.TGZ (tgz size:92828 date:16 maj 14:16). After untaring it move all files from lna100src directory to pcmcia-cs-3.1.16/clients. Run Configure and make all :)
Use config.lna100b from lna100b.zip. Rename it to lna100b.conf. Edit it and change a line from:

class "network" module "lnax100"

to:

class "network" module "lna100"

and enjoy it :)
I'v crashed my system hot ejecting card :(
Because linux on laptop is only testing instalation (looplinux on FAT partition) speed test were made on ftp protocol with simply tools:
- server: wu_ftpd with 50MB file (full cached in RAM)
- laptop: mc (ftp-filesystem) transfering to /dev/null
Mirek

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