I've got two question regarding networking. I've got a machine with a D-Link DFE 530-TX network card Problem 1: On sunday I managed to get the card working again after a week of trying to understand why it didn't work. The problem seems to be related to the hardware address of the card. When I ran ifconfig the hardware address was 0. I opened the machine and changed slot, turned the machine on and it worked again. Running ifconfig gave the proper hardware address. Yesterday my son decided that it was time to run Ages of Empire so I booted up the machine in Windows mode. Today when I booted up the machine in Linux again the address was once again set to 0. A bit suspicious I turned off the main power to the machine, waited 10-15 minutes and tried again and this time the hardware address was OK. So once again I booted up the machine in Windows (98 SE) and then rebooted into Linux again and ... the hardware adress was once again 0. Shutting down the power and the booting up in Linux again gives the card the right address again. I'm no windows expert (the only reason why I got the machine was to run Linux) so I have no idea what is happening. Does anyone have an idea? Problem 2: The machine is connected to a hub to which I also have a number of Macs connected. At work I downloaded the Java 1.3 files to my PowerBook, went home, connected it to the hub and tried to copying the files using FTP. At the beginning everythings seems fine but after a few second the transfer stops (about 4.5 MB is transferred) and when I look in /var/log/messages it says: mommo kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1 Link 0021 What does it mean? How can I fix this? jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:jem@mostrom.pp.se Free Elektron http://www.mostrom.pp.se/folk/jem/
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jan Erik [iso-8859-1] Moström wrote:
I've got two question regarding networking. I've got a machine with a D-Link DFE 530-TX network card
Problem 1:
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I'm no windows expert (the only reason why I got the machine was to run Linux) so I have no idea what is happening. Does anyone have an idea?
Is "PNP OS" set to "no" in the BIOS? (When set to "yes", Windows can reconfigure the hardware setting in a way that doesn't make sense to Linux.)
Problem 2:
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mommo kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1 Link 0021
What does it mean? How can I fix this?
I'm not sure. This may be a problem that disappears if you get the first problem taken care of. Christopher Reimer
On 2001-01-16 at 10:34, Christopher D. Reimer <creimer@rahul.net> wrote: Thanks for the tip
Is "PNP OS" set to "no" in the BIOS? (When set to "yes", Windows can reconfigure the hardware setting in a way that doesn't make sense to Linux.)
You were right, it was set to "yes" ... but changing it doesn't seem to help. I can live with this problem now when I know how to work around it.
mommo kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1 Link 0021
What does it mean? How can I fix this?
I'm not sure. This may be a problem that disappears if you get the first problem taken care of.
This problem is worse. If anyone have an idea of how to fix it I would be grateful. jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:jem@mostrom.pp.se Free Elektron http://www.mostrom.pp.se/folk/jem/
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Jan Erik [iso-8859-1] Moström wrote:
On 2001-01-16 at 10:34, Christopher D. Reimer <creimer@rahul.net> wrote:
Thanks for the tip
Is "PNP OS" set to "no" in the BIOS? (When set to "yes", Windows can reconfigure the hardware setting in a way that doesn't make sense to Linux.)
You were right, it was set to "yes" ... but changing it doesn't seem to help.
Usually, most BIOSes have an option to "reset configuration". If you set that to "yes", the BIOS configuration will be reset on the next reboot. You could also change "resource configuration" (I think that's what it's called) from "auto" to "manual", and leave the manual setting as it is. If that doesn't work, you could "Load BIOS Defaults" and redo your settings. Resetting the BIOS on the motherboard by shorting a special jumper is another option. PNP can be difficult at time, but this is pretty much the whole bag of tricks. If none of this works, then it might be time to consider different hardware or seperating Linux and Windows to different machines. Christopher Reimer
Have you tried to tun off plug and play in the bios ? This will stop plug and play. start the pc in linux with a good config , then reboot on go into the bios and turn it off, then reboot , you may need to re set somethins in windows afterwards. At 06:35 PM 1/16/2001 +0100, Jan Erik Moström wrote:
I've got two question regarding networking. I've got a machine with a D-Link DFE 530-TX network card
Problem 1:
On sunday I managed to get the card working again after a week of trying to understand why it didn't work. The problem seems to be related to the hardware address of the card. When I ran ifconfig the hardware address was 0. I opened the machine and changed slot, turned the machine on and it worked again. Running ifconfig gave the proper hardware address.
Yesterday my son decided that it was time to run Ages of Empire so I booted up the machine in Windows mode. Today when I booted up the machine in Linux again the address was once again set to 0. A bit suspicious I turned off the main power to the machine, waited 10-15 minutes and tried again and this time the hardware address was OK.
So once again I booted up the machine in Windows (98 SE) and then rebooted into Linux again and ... the hardware adress was once again 0. Shutting down the power and the booting up in Linux again gives the card the right address again.
I'm no windows expert (the only reason why I got the machine was to run Linux) so I have no idea what is happening. Does anyone have an idea?
Problem 2:
The machine is connected to a hub to which I also have a number of Macs connected. At work I downloaded the Java 1.3 files to my PowerBook, went home, connected it to the hub and tried to copying the files using FTP. At the beginning everythings seems fine but after a few second the transfer stops (about 4.5 MB is transferred) and when I look in /var/log/messages it says:
mommo kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1 Link 0021
What does it mean? How can I fix this?
jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:jem@mostrom.pp.se Free Elektron http://www.mostrom.pp.se/folk/jem/
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connected it to the hub and tried to copying the files using FTP. At the beginning everythings seems fine but after a few second the transfer stops (about 4.5 MB is transferred) and when I look in /var/log/messages it says:
mommo kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x7829 advertising
01e1
Link 0021
What does it mean? How can I fix this?
It's telling you the kernel found eth0. With that info. It's normal. This is what dmesg tells me: via-rhine.c:v1.08b-LK1.1.6 8/9/2000 Written by Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0f.0 eth0: VIA VT3043 Rhine at 0xa800, 00:80:c8:e1:84:ef, IRQ 10. eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1. eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #8 link partner capability of 45e1. PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.0 or from /var/log/messages hophead kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1 The only possible issue is the 01e1 [Is that 10MB? ] and the 0021. But I'm not sure they are wrong. Nick
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