FC1 pcmcia network card failure

John McBride jmcbride at ccis.com
Sat Nov 8 07:04:42 UTC 2003


My netgear FA511 10/100 pcmcia network card is failing on boot after 
installing FC1. It did not do this with RedHat Linux 9.

Once booting is complete, pulling/reinserting the card (hotplug) 
restores functionality.

/var/log/messages is full of errors like:

Nov  7 22:20:46 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Nov  7 22:20:46 localhost kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 
fc69c1d7, CSR12 00000000, resetting...
Nov  7 22:20:54 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Nov  7 22:20:54 localhost kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 
fc69c1d7, CSR12 00000000, resetting...
Nov  7 22:21:02 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Nov  7 22:21:02 localhost kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 
fc69c1d7, CSR12 00000000, resetting...
Nov  7 22:21:10 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

...these go away after hotplugging.

Here is some hotplug info:

Nov  7 23:03:50 localhost kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 6)
Nov  7 23:03:55 localhost kernel: cs: cb_alloc(bus 6): vendor 0x1317, 
device 0x1985
Nov  7 23:03:55 localhost kernel: PCI: Enabling device 06:00.0 (0000 -> 
0003)
Nov  7 23:03:55 localhost kernel: eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 
0xc88cf000, 00:10:7A:6B:19:21, IRQ 10.
Nov  7 23:03:55 localhost cardmgr[1462]: socket 1: CardBus hotplug device
Nov  7 23:03:55 localhost pci.agent[5501]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver tulip
Nov  7 23:03:56 localhost kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter 
core team

This is from dmesg; I wonder why the address changes between boot and 
hotplug:

# dmesg | grep ADMtek
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xc88e7000, 00:10:7A:6B:19:21, IRQ 10.
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xc88cf000, 00:10:7A:6B:19:21, IRQ 10.

Regards,
John





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