[LinuxBIOS] via epia

[Ronald G Minnich]

ethernet not working.

So, here is what I see: I can send packets. I can get interrupts on 
recieve packets. What I don't get is the packets into the nic itself. 
The packets on send are received, and responded to, by a dhcp server.

this sounds like phy to me. any ideas?

This is the bad output:
Using /lib/modules/2.6.14-i386/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.ko
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:12.0
eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0xfec00000, 00:40:63:d3:4f:61, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.

This is the good:

Using 
/lib/modules/2.6.14-i386/kernel/drivers/netvia-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 
June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:12.0

eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7869 advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.

ron

[Richard Smith]

> So, here is what I see: I can send packets. I can get interrupts on
> recieve packets. What I don't get is the packets into the nic itself.

Are you _really_ sure you get interrupts on receive?  I had a similar
problem when the PCI INT routing was not correct.

[Ronald G Minnich]

Richard Smith wrote:
> > So, here is what I see: I can send packets. I can get interrupts on
> > recieve packets. What I don't get is the packets into the nic itself.
>
> Are you _really_ sure you get interrupts on receive?  I had a similar
> problem when the PCI INT routing was not correct.

I am really sure I am not getting that interrupt. Her'es the weird part:

/ # cat /proc/interrupts
            CPU0
   0:     790617          XT-PIC  timer
   2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
   4:       4592          XT-PIC  serial
  11:      11599          XT-PIC  eth0
  14:        175          XT-PIC  ide0
NMI:          0
LOC:          0
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

lotsa interrupts (apparently) on 11.

this is weird.

ron

[Ronald G Minnich]

Richard Smith wrote:
> > So, here is what I see: I can send packets. I can get interrupts on
> > recieve packets. What I don't get is the packets into the nic itself.
>
> Are you _really_ sure you get interrupts on receive?  I had a similar
> problem when the PCI INT routing was not correct.

oh, I forgot: why I might be getting ints.

The reject packet count on eth0 is through the roof. For ever packet 
sent to it, it increments the reject count.

This sounds like badly setup enet hardware to me.

ron