DFE-650 not always Linux-compatible? 

Forum: PCMCIA Network Adapter Issues
Date: 2000, Feb 25
From: Anthony Jameson AJameson

Subject: DFE-650 not always Linux-compatible? Reply-to: Anthony Jameson <jameson@cs.uni-sb.de> BCC: jameson@sol.cs.uni-sb.de --text follows this line-- Hi, The D-Link DFE-650TX is well known as a Linux-compatible Fast Ethernet card. For example, two such cards have been found to work fine on my Toshiba Satellite 4090XCDT running S.u.S.e. Linux 6.0 But just a few days ago I bought a third such card for myself, and it's been nothing but trouble, even as its supposedly identical twins continue to work fine. It's recognized by the card manager, and the pcnet_cs driver is duly loaded. But it's impossible to connect to the network: I always get the error message "No route to host". In /var/log/messages, there's always a message like this: Feb 24 22:14:40 helena kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x42, ISR=0x0, t=1000. Followng the advice in the PCMCIA how-to, I've tried juggling the IRQs and the ports, but the result is always the same. And this is not a unique experience: I've corresponded with a Linux expert in northern Germany who spent days combating exactly the same problem with his new DFE-650TX card, before giving up and returning the card to the dealer. So it looks as if D-Link may have made some change in their card that renders it Linux-incompatible (though they still claim Linux-compatibility for the card on the packaging and on their web site). Anthony Jameson Here's some debugging information: Kernel version: 2.0.36 cardctl version 3.0.6 Output of "cardctl ident": Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "D-Link", "DFE-650", "Fast Ethernet", "Rev. D1" manfid: 0x0149, 0x0230 function: 6 (network) Output of "cardctl status": Socket 0: no card Socket 1: 5V 16-bit card present Function 0: Typical sequence in /var/log/messages, starting with a system reboot: Feb 24 22:13:51 helena syslogd 1.3-3: restart. Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: Loaded 5086 symbols from /boot/System.map. Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.0.36. Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: Loaded 18 symbols from 6 modules. Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.6 Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: kernel build: 2.0.36 #1 Fri Dec 11 16:26:51 /etc/localtime 1998 Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: Intel PCIC probe: Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: Toshiba ToPIC97 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 2, mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: host opts [0]: [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x10] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 20/20] Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: host opts [1]: [slot 0xf0] [ccr 0x11] [cdr 0x86] [rcr 0x02] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 21/21] Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12 polling interval = 1000 ms Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: clean. Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean. Feb 24 22:13:52 helena kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: port 0x300, irq 9, hw_addr 00:E0:98:77:94:FD Feb 24 22:13:53 helena ypbind[124]: unable to register (YPBINDPROG, YPBINDVERS, udp). : Connection refused # Is the above relevant here? Feb 24 22:13:54 helena lpd[147]: restarted Feb 24 22:14:18 helena apmd[255]: Version 3.0final (APM BIOS 1.1, Linux driver 1.2) Feb 24 22:14:18 helena apmd[255]: Charge: * * * (94% 2:38) Feb 24 22:14:22 helena su: (to jameson) root on /dev/ttyp2 Feb 24 22:14:32 helena apmd[255]: Now using AC Power Feb 24 22:14:40 helena kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x42, ISR=0x0, t=1000. Feb 24 22:15:45 helena kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x42, ISR=0x0, t=6500. Feb 24 22:17:45 helena kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x42, ISR=0x0, t=12000. /etc/pcmcia/config.opts: (Don't know if there's anything nonstandard here.) # # Local PCMCIA Configuration File # # System resources available for PCMCIA devices # include port 0x100-0x4ff, port 0x1000-0x17ff include memory 0xc0000-0xfffff include memory 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff, memory 0x60000000-0x60ffffff # # Extra port range for IBM Token Ring # include port 0xa00-0xaff # # Resources we should not use, even if they appear to be available # # First built-in serial port exclude irq 4 # Second built-in serial port exclude irq 3 # First built-in parallel port exclude irq 7

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1. Try This by Jochen Friedrich, 2000, Feb 25

1. Hope others can try by Anthony Jameson, 2000, Feb 26

1. tried and it works by Ingo Ciechowski, 2000, Feb 26

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2. bad performance with Jochen's patch and DFE-650 by Ingo Ciechowski, 2000, Feb 26

1. Performance should be equally bad under Windows by David Hinds, 2000, Feb 27

... 8 Message(s)

2. NetGear FA410TXC Tool works for D-Link DE-650 by Ingo Ciechowski, 2000, Feb 26

1. HELP! *Still* can't get D-Link DFE-650TX going! (Day 5) by Harold Boyer, 2000, Aug 18

(_ Re: Angry: HELP! *Still* can't get D-Link DFE-650TX going! (Day 5) by David Hinds, 2000, Aug 21

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