Re: DS21143 and BNC (10Base2)

[Olle Hansson <olle hansson home se>]

Hi 

Yepp I have tryed whith the old_tulip and still same problem.
I realy need to get BNC access to this computer. Do you recomend any carts
whith BNC connector that work in AlphaLinux ?

/Olle Hansson


* Michal Jaegermann (michal@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca) wrote:
> Konrad Podloucky wrote:
> > 
> > On 28-Jun-2000 Phil Carmody enlightened me with:
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > On switching to the de4x5
> > > driver (the tulip documentation recommends you switch im
> > > almost all cases to this driver)
> 
> Really?  Where?  It is likely pretty old if this is the case.
> 
> > > I am unable to use 100Mb, and
> > > from AUTO it reverts to 10Mb.
> 
> Yeap!  It is really a small wonder that it works with 21143 at all.
> It looks like that transmitters on your card have "backwards
> compatibility" mode.
> 
> > I had the same problem in an x86 workstation with a 21143 (I
> > believe it was a D-Link card, but I could be wrong). tulip would
> > refuse to work (although it seemed like it would; the link light
> > was on, but no packets came through) and I only got 10Mbs with
> > the de4x5 driver.
> 
> Recent kernels have also 'old_tulip' driver.  Did you try that one?
> This one is supposedly not needed in the really current 2.2 kernels
> but with all variants of tulip cards floating around I would be
> careful with that.
> 
> >From my output of 'dmesg':
> 
> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0x8000, 00:00:F0:51:02:52, IRQ 44.
> eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> eth0:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
> eth0:  Index #1 - Media 10baseT-FD (#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
> eth0:  Index #2 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) block.
> eth0:  Index #3 - Media 100baseTx-FD (#5) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4) block.
> 
>    Michal
> 
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