SUMMARY: old 21143-AA problem ?

From: Rainer Wolf <rainer.wolf_at_rz.uni-ulm.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:30:30 +0100

 Hi ,

( Original question follows )

This Card was not for the alphaserver 1000a and 2000/250.
They just don't match - the network card is working well on
PCs and maybe there is more information under
 http://www.pentium.com/design/network/specupdt/21143specupdt.htm
...
the solution was - as werner mentioned -
 to buy a DE500-BA , which came within 3 days !!

[ At least this de500-ba card works without problem with ewa0_mode
at 'FAST' setting
--ftp shows (3e+03 Kbytes/s) transferring to some gigabit-ethernet--

... setting ewa0_mode to full-duplex ( fastfd ) seems to work also
- telnet , login ... but when connecting to other systems via ftp
after the 'put xxx' the ftp - session hangs - so I changed back to FAST
- ewa0_mode ... ?? ]

-- 
Many thanks to:
"O'Brien, Pat" <pobrien_at_mitidata.com>
Warren Sturm <wrsturm_at_MtRoyal.AB.CA>
Nikola Milutinovic <Nikola.Milutinovic_at_ev.co.yu>
owan.bailey_at_bt.com
"Hahling, Werner" <hahlingw_at_nqn.newsltd.com.au>
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / best regards
Rainer Wolf
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rainer Wolf [mailto:rainer.wolf_at_rz.uni-ulm.de]
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 4:05 PM
> To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
> Subject: old 21143-AA problem ?
> 
> Sorry for this maybe old question,
> 
> I have found a lot of messages on this theme but i am still confused,
> just trying to get a pci Fastethernet Card running
> 
> My system is :
> alphaserver 1000A with the latest Firmware ( from the Firmware Update 5.8 )
> installed. The card shows
> >>>
> DECchip 21143-AA        ewa0.0.0.2001.0
> ...
> the boot uerf output shows :
> 
>                                         tu0: DECchip 21143: Revision: 4.1
>                                         tu0: auto negotiation capable device
> 
>                                         tu0: ethernet address checksum error
> 
>                                         - Failed to configure device in PCI
>                                          _bus 0, slot 12 with driver tu
> 
> ... and no work - it is the ethernet Interface inside
> ( beside a running fddi -interface )
> ................................................
> My confusion:
> in another alpha ( xp1000 ) there is also such a card inside
> (the same revision level ) and this is running
> ( at a lower firmware and at the same os-Version 4.0f )
> Both have cables connected to the same switch ...
> in this xp1000 it looks like:
>                                         COMPAQ Professional Workstation
> XP1000
>                                         pci1 at nexus
>                                         tu0: DECchip 21143: Revision: 4.1
>                                         tu0: auto negotiation capable device
> 
>                                         tu0 at pci1 slot 3
>                                         tu0: DEC TULIP (10/100) Ethernet
>                                          _Interface, hardware address:
>                                          _00-00-F8-71-BC-14
>                                         tu0: auto negotiation off: selecting
> 
>                                          _10BaseT (UTP) port: half duplex
> 
> 
> ........................................
> 
> Now could someone clarify :
> how does it depend on using this 'DECchip 21143: Revision: 4.1'
>         machine ?
>         or operatingsystem ? - on the two alphas its the same  but
>                 someone mentioned that on the same machine its no
>                 problem to use the card together with linux
>         or firmware ?
>         or are there some settings to try ( ie ewa0_mode ) ?
> 
> do I have a chance to use it in the alpaserver1000 or should I look
> for another card ?
> ( the problem comes up because we soon won't have fddi available )
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