Question: D-Link DE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card  

Forum: PCMCIA Network Adapter Issues
Date: 2000, Feb 25
From: Phil Brooke pjbrooke

Hi, I have a problem with a D-Link DE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card (+RJ45 `tail') when using this with a Gateway 2000 Solo 2100 laptop running Debian 2.0, kernel version 2.0.34 and PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11. The symptoms are: - The card appears to configure okay. (Two high beeps, and ifconfig seems okay -- output shortly.) - No traffic appears to get off the card. - The light on the tail with the RJ45 socket never comes on. ifconfig reports: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:85:81:39 inet addr:192.168.16.99 Bcast:192.168.16.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Collisions:0 Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300 /proc/net/dev never shows any receive packets; only transmit packets. The only other anomaly I can find is related to when I remove the card. Sometimes, there is a series of messages (from 19:46:14) like this when the card is ejected: Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond syslogd 1.3-3#26: restart. Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.11 Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: kernel build: 2.0.34 #2 Tue Aug 3 20:22:30 GMT 1999 Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [apm] Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: Intel PCIC probe: Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: Cirrus PD6729 PCI-to-PCMCIA at slot 00:13, port 0xfcfc Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: host opts [0]: [ring] [1/3/2] [1/9/2] Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: host opts [1]: [ring] [1/3/2] [1/9/2] Feb 24 19:36:47 diamond kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,9,10,11,12 polling interval = 1000 ms Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03ff: excluding 0x330-0x337 0x370-0x37f 0x398-0x39f Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: cs: memory probe 0x0d0000-0x0dffff: clean. Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: loading device 'eth0'... Feb 24 19:36:48 diamond kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:80:C8:85:81:39 Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond kernel: eth0: interrupt(s) dropped! Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond kernel: eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 4c. Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond kernel: eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs ff. Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond last message repeated 7 times Feb 24 19:46:14 diamond kernel: eth0: unexpected TX-done interrupt, lasttx=20. [lots of lines snipped] Feb 24 19:46:15 diamond kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0xff Feb 24 19:46:15 diamond kernel: eth0: interrupt from stopped card I've checked that the network cable to the hub is okay. The card and tail were reported as working okay before I bought it (however, I have no means to check it with another OS). I *think* I've excluded IRQ conflicts (the laptop IR port was allegedly on IRQ 3; that's now disabled). The laptop has happily used a modem card before. I've now run out of things to check. Have I missed anything I can do? (I know the answer is almost certainly `yes', but I can't think of what they are.) Many thanks in advance, Phil. -- Phillip J. Brooke pjb@mithlond48.freeserve.co.uk

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Maybe a bad card?? Re: Question: D-Link DE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card (Phil Brooke) Date: 2000, Feb 25 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

The errors at eject time are par for the course. They aren't related to your problem. (1) when you do try to transmit, do you get any additional kernel error messages? Anything about tx timeouts? (2) Are you sure irq 3 is free? Does /proc/interrupts show activity when you try to send packets through the interface? (3) You say "the card and tail were reported as working". Hmmm. What does that mean? You bought the card used? Red flag? I'm not familiar with the dongle on the DE-650. Can you tell if the LED(s) are supposed to indicate traffic, or just a valid link? Many dongles have a link light; that should be lit whether the driver works or not, as long as power is supplied to the card and the cable is ok, unless the card is bad. -- Dave

1. Note: Possibly... by Phil Brooke, 2000, Feb 27 (_ Bad hardware seems likely by David Hinds, 2000, Feb 28

Idea: can you try it under Windows? Re: Question: D-Link DE-650 PCMCIA ethernet card (Phil Brooke) Date: 2000, Feb 27 From: Ingo Ciechowski inki

The Windows95/98/NT drivers I got with my DE-650 worked out of the box (just had to configure the machines IP since I don't have a local DHCP server) So I'd suggest you try it under Windoze first - if you have such a beast available on another notebook or partition... This would at least make sure whether the card is working or not. Ingo

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