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Do you know what the line "The transmitter stopped! ..." means. My system
outputs the same message!

Pavel

Rod Smith wrote:

> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <36FAE202.A8AAC42D@mci.com>,
>         Hus <huseni.saboowala@mci.com> writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Greetings!!!
> >
> > I've a LinkSys LNE100Tx Fast Ethernet card on my PC which my SuSE Linux
> > 5.3 fails to recognise/startup.
> > Apparently this card is not in the list of standard networking card
> > modules provided  by my Linux vendor. So I tried selecting a similar
> > 3Com card and a few other standard cards ..but no luck.(Is this the
> > right way to do it?? how do u connect non-standard cards anyway?? do I
> > need a specific linux device driver for it??)
>
> The Linksys LNE100TX is one of MANY cards based on the DEC "Tulip"
> chipset.  Unfortunately, I gather that DEC is no longer making this
> chipset (the reports I've seen are that Intel swallowed up that part of
> DEC and has discontinued the chipset).  Fortunately, a number of clones of
> the Tulip chipset have become available, and most Tulip board
> manufacturers, including Linksys, have simply switched to one of these
> clones.  The clones may not be recognized by any but the latest of the
> Linux Tulip drivers, though.  You can obtain the latest from:
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip-devel.html
>
> You'll need to take the tulip.c file and put it in your kernel source
> directory (in drivers/net, IIRC), then recompile either modules or the
> kernel, depending upon how your system is configured.
>
> Now, if your card is old enough to have a "genuine" DEC part, it SHOULD be
> recognized already, assuming that SuSE includes Tulip support by default.
> That assumption could be wrong.  In either event, try this at a command
> prompt:
>
> dmesg | grep eth0 -
>
> This will show you the kernel bootup messages concerning the eth0 device.
> Here's what this returns on my system, which uses a recent Linksys
> LNE100TX with a Tulip clone:
>
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0x7c00, xx xx xx xx xx xx, IRQ 11.
> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
> eth0: The transmitter stopped!  CSR5 is 2068012, CSR6 812e0002.
> eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
>
> (I've axed my board's identifying numbers.)  The output for a board with
> an original DEC part will be a bit different, of course, but you should
> see some sort of part identification and status report.
>
> --
> Rod Smith
> rodsmith@channel1.uceprotect.com
> http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
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