Re: dead amd pc-net32 PCI: help!

S.K. Singh (ncsd@cirg.up.nic.in)
Thu, 6 Aug 1998 17:07:52 +0530 (IST)


About 2 months back I sent mails to linux-net and many others regarding
PC-net PCI-II card from AMD. My machine hangs as soon as 'ifconfig'
command is issued ether by machint at boot or by me after boot. After
trying lance.c and lance32.c drivers on kernel 2.0.33 I gave up and the
AMD card i am using in a window 95 machine and ne2000 clone (called
poor by linux people) from compex in Linux server. This is for information
only

--Dr. S.K. Singh,

On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Max Klohn wrote:

> Thanks,
> I found the definition of SIOCADDRT in the source tree, "add routing table entry"
> I had a static route entry to net 192.168.121.0 through eth0 (192.168.121.10), I
> think I had put it there for troubleshooting... I zeroed it out and now I don't get
> the SIOCADDRT error message...
>
> But eth0 still fails to transmit/receive packets... so the real problem is yet in
> another place.
> my current networks table:
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
> localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2 eth0
> loopnet * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 2 lo
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> I am thinking seriously of getting the S.U.S.E release maybe I'll have better
> results than with Red Hat?
>
>
> Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> > Max Klohn wrote:
> >
> > > I noticed I am getting the following message at boot, just after the
> > > initialization of the amd pcnet32 netcard:
> > > (for memory: RH5.1, failed detection at first install script, driver manually
> > > installed after, fails pings and shows TX errors, but "sees" the wire with
> > > tcpdump)
> > >
> > > SIOCADDRT: invalid argument
> >
> > The most likely reason for this message is that you have a route
> > command of the form:
> >
> > route add ... gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx dev eth0
> >
> > where the gateway isn't itself reachable.
> >
> > You would need to check the scripts which initialise networking.
> >
> > --
> > Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
>
>
>
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