Got one reply from Olle Eriksson <olle_at_cb.uu.se> stating that it was a
firmware problem and I should upgrade. After the firmware upgrade, the
card was recognised by the firmware.
I should mention that although the kernel recognized the card with the old
firmware, the communication with the Cisco switch was a little flaky. At
first I attributed it to a bad cable, but now I think it had to do with
the firmware problem. After having upgraded the firmware, the card ran
without problems a day or so, but then Compaq Service installed a new
motherboard for unrelated reasons and longer term experience is lacking.
Yours
Niels Joergen Kokholm | email: kokholm_at_math.ku.dk
Institut for Matematiske Fag | phone: +45 3532 0759/+45 2128 6932
Universitetsparken 5 | fax: +45 3532 0704
DK-2100 Kobenhavn OE, Denmark | www:
http://www.math.ku.dk/~kokholm
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Niels Kokholm wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently put a DE500-BA 100 Mbit ethernet card in an alphastation
> 200. The firmware (revision 6.3) does not recognize the card, but a
> kernel built with the appropriate line
> controller tu1 at pci0 slot 12
> does.
> Since the firmware did not recognize the DE500-BA, I could not set the
> speed at the console prompt, but with a "speed 200" argument ti ifconfig,
> the card seems to be running perfectly as fast full duplex.
>
> Should I worry? Is it a fw revision problem? Another AS200 with fw
> revision 6.9 recognized the card w/o problems.
>
> Yours
>
>
> Niels Joergen Kokholm | email: kokholm_at_math.ku.dk
> Institut for Matematiske Fag | phone: +45 3532 0759/+45 2128 6932
> Universitetsparken 5 | fax: +45 3532 0704
> DK-2100 Kobenhavn OE, Denmark | www: http://www.math.ku.dk/~kokholm
>
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 03 2000 - 07:31:05 NZST