Re: Tyan Tomcat i815T(S2080) LAN problems

[Ben Greear]

I sort of got it working by using the e100 driver from Intel, and then
forcefully setting the MAC address to something other than 0xFF...FF

Neither Becker, I, nor someone at Intel could figure out why
the MAC (EEPROM) was all FFs.  The best guess was that the BIOS
was screwed up somehow (that's what the Intel guy said...)

I'd be interested if you get it working...I have two of these marginal
boards gathering dust!!

Ben

Ryan C. Bonham wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I installed kernel 2.4.17 and this problem still exists. I have attached the important stuff from demesg and from eepro100-diag. 
> 
> 
>>Has anyone gotten the Dual built-in LAN cards to work on the 
>>Tyan S2080 Motherboard?  I am running a Redhat kernel 
>>2.4.9-13.. I haven't tried the latest kernel yet.. I saw some 
>>talk about this board in the archives but I found no 
>>solutions. It says it has a Intel 82559 LAN controller and a 
>>ICH2 LAN Controller. I am only seeing one NIC when I boot up. 
>>And dmesg is showing
>>eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0xFF00, check setting before 
>>activating this device!
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
> eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <[e-mail]> and others
> PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:08.0
> eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0xff00, check settings before activating this device!
> eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF, IRQ 11.
>   Board assembly ffffff-255, Physical connectors present: RJ45 BNC AUI MII
>   Primary interface chip unknown-15 PHY #31.
>     Secondary interface chip i82555.
>   General self-test: passed.
>   Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
>   Internal registers self-test: passed.
>   ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b).
> 
> ----------------------------------  eerpro100-diag -aaeef
> 
> eepro100-diag.c:v2.06 12/10/2001 Donald Becker ([e-mail])
>  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Index #1: Found a Intel i82562 Pro/100 V adapter at 0xc800.
> i82557 chip registers at 0xc800:
>   0c000050 07036000 00000000 00080002 3fe1ffff 00000600
>   No interrupt sources are pending.
>    The transmit unit state is 'Suspended'.
>    The receive unit state is 'Ready'.
>   This status is normal for an activated but idle interface.
>  The Command register has an unprocessed command 0c00(?!).
> EEPROM contents, size 256x16:
>     00: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x08: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x10: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x18: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x20: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x28: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x30: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x38: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x40: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x48: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x50: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x58: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x60: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x68: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x70: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x78: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x80: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x88: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x90: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0x98: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xa0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xa8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xb0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xb8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xc0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xc8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xd0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xd8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xe0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xe8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xf0: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0xf8: ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>  *****  The EEPROM checksum is INCORRECT!  *****
>   The checksum is 0xFF00, it should be 0xBABA!
> Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 EEPROM contents:
>   Station address FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF.
>   Board assembly ffffff-255, Physical connectors present: RJ45 BNC AUI MII
>   Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #-1.
>     Secondary interface chip i82555, PHY -1.
>    Sleep mode is enabled.  This is not recommended.
>    Under high load the card may not respond to
>    PCI requests, and thus cause a master abort.
>    To clear sleep mode use the '-G 0 -w -w -f' options..
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