No SROM info for selected media

From: W Darlington <w.darlington_at_am.qub.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 09:35:20 +0100

Hi List,

I have a 164LX-based machine on which I have installed Digital Unix.
It has a tulip-based card, a D-Link DFE-500TX Rev-C2, which has a
Digital 21140-AE chip sitting on it. The problem is that at boot time,
it says (among other things):

  tu0: no SROM info for selected media

and it says it in the uerf log too:

  tu0: DECchip 21140: Revision 2.2
  tu0: No SROM info for selected media
  tu0: at pci0 slot 6
  tu0: DEC TULIP (10/100) Ethernet
  _Interface, hardware address
  _00-E0-29-00-B9-EB
  tu0: console mode: selecting 10BaseT
  _(UTP) port: half duplex

and the network doesn't work. The network card has a fine selection
of link lights on it and they all light up as I would expect. The
network just doesn't work. I can't ping. I can't telnet. I can't ftp.
I'm confident that the lack of network is related to this `SROM' error
message: I just don't know what to do about it.

I've tried other 21140-based network cards: A different D-Link DFE-500TX,
with a 21140-AF chip and an SMC Etherpower (I think) card with a 21140-AE
chip. Both give the same error. [Actually, the error above comes with the
SMC card in the machine, not the first D-Link.]

Has anybody seen this problem before and, more importantly, how did you
make it go away? *All* tips gratefully received.

Many thanks,
Wesley Darlington,
Dept of Applied Maths, No `Office 97' documents please.
Queen's University of Belfast. Linux: yer only man!
(01232) T 273911 F 239182
Received on Tue Sep 08 1998 - 08:36:11 NZST

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