FW: Via Rhine and Kernel 2.4.x

[Peter Putzer]

Hi,

has anyone got an idea what may be wrong in the 2.4.x VIA Rhine driver?
(Please cc: me, as I'm not subscribed to the list)

Greetings,
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald Becker [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:10 AM
To: Peter Putzer
Subject: Re: Via Rhine and Kernel 2.4.x

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Peter Putzer wrote:

> sorry to disturb you, but I've got very severe problems with my Via Rhine
> and kernel 2.4.9 resp. 10. It's a no-name PCI 10/100 MBit adapter that
works
> in both Windows (95, 98, 2K) and Linux 2.2.x

Sorry, I don't support the modified driver distributed with the 2.4
kernels.  I only answer questions about my unmodified drivers.
   http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
      ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/via-rhine.c

>  via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.11  20/08/2001  Written by Donald Becker
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0
> via-rhine: reset finished after 5 microseconds.
> eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0xe000, 00:00:21:d1:07:9b, IRQ 9.
> eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x782d advertising 01e1 Link
00a1.
> eth0: via_rhine_open() irq 9.
> eth0: reset finished after 5 microseconds.
> eth0: Done via_rhine_open(), status 081a MII status: 782d.
> eth0: VIA Rhine monitor tick, status 0000.
> eth0: Transmit frame #1 queued in slot 0.
> eth0: Interrupt, status 2008.
>  Tx scavenge 0 status 00008100.
> eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 00008100.

This indicates that the transmit was aborted.  Presumably the
transceiver was misconfigured.

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