Problem installing 10/100Mb card

From: G. Dimitoglou <george_at_esa.nascom.nasa.gov>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 15:51:29 -0500

Hi,

I have the following problem:
I am trying to install a DEC Fast EtherWORKS PCI 10/100.
        System: DEC Alpha 500/333.
        Operating Sys: OSF1 V4.0b (revision 564)
        Firmware: 6.4

I have physically installed the card. 'show config' recognizes both net
cards, the original at:
        BUS 00 slot 06: DECchip 21040 Network controller ewa0.0.0.6.0
and the new one at:
        BUS 00 slot 12: DE500-BA Network controller ewb.0.0.0.12.0

The card, lights-up the '100 Mb/s orange LED' and the 'Link status LED'
blinks - as if it has traffic. But no net activity on the machine...

I have correctly performed the kernel rebuild procedure, (I know I did
it right, because I also added a second SCSI controller at the same
time and the system picked it up immediately) but the DE500-BA was not
detected and nowhere to be found in the temprary kernel. Upon boot-up
no indication of a 'tu1'. Only 'tu0' appears.

Has anyone seen this? Is there a patch or a firmware upgrade I need to
do to get the card to be recognized by genvmunix? Should I just
manually add the entry:
        controller tu1 at pci0 slot 12

in the kernel (/sys/conf/<SYSNAME>) and rebuild?

Following I have included my kernel file section. Any help will be
appreciated. I will summarize.

Thanks!

====================================
George Dimitoglou (SAC)

SOHO ESA/NASA Project Scientist Team
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Bldg. 26, G-1, Code 682.3
Greenbelt, MD 20771
george_at_esa.nascom.nasa.gov
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        bus pci0 at nexus?
        callout after_c "../bin/mkdata pci"
        bus isp0 at pci0 slot 9 vector ispintr
        controller scsi0 at isp0 slot 0
        bus eisa0 at pci0 slot 10
        callout after_c "../bin/mkdata eisa"
        controller ace0 at eisa0 slot 8 vector aceintr
        controller ace1 at eisa0 slot 9 vector aceintr
        controller lp0 at eisa0 slot 10 vector lpintr
        controller fdi0 at eisa0 slot 11
        device disk fd0 at fdi0 drive 0
        controller gpc0 at eisa0 slot 0 vector gpcintr
        bus isp1 at pci0 slot 11 vector ispintr
        controller scsi1 at isp1 slot 0
        controller tu0 at pci0 slot 6
        controller tga0 at pci0 slot 8
Received on Fri Jan 23 1998 - 21:51:52 NZDT

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