I have an AlphaStation 200 4/233. I recently installed
a DEC 21140 based pci 10/100 ethernet card.
I have been trying to get this card to communicate on a
100mbps hub for a couple of days now. I am positive that the
cables and hub are working perfectly. The problem is with the
AlphaStation, the NIC, or the software (driver).
The NIC appears to ifconfig up, but when I try to ping another
host on the network, the transmit light on the hub never flashes
as it should.
Here are a few lines from my kern.log
Feb 11 18:35:13 anomaly vmunix: tu1: DECchip 21140: Revision: 2.2
Feb 11 18:35:13 anomaly vmunix: tu1: no SROM info for selected media
Feb 11 18:35:13 anomaly vmunix: tu1 at pci0 slot 12
Feb 11 18:35:13 anomaly vmunix: tu1: DEC TULIP (10/100) Ethernet Interface,
hard
ware address: <snip>
Feb 11 18:35:13 anomaly vmunix: tu1: console mode: selecting 100BaseTX
(UTP) por
t: half duplex
Note the following line is repeated quite often throughout my
kern.log:
Feb 11 18:35:13 anomaly vmunix: tu1: no SROM info for selected media
What does this message mean? Any ideas if there is hope for this?
What other information would be helpful in diagnosing this problem?
BTW, I did set ew0b_mode to fast in SRM.
Thanks
Nick Maniscalco
nmanisca_at_vt.edu
Received on Fri Feb 11 2000 - 23:49:25 NZDT