Hi, I get a similar message when I boot the system with no ethernet cable connected to the ethercard, no matter which card. BTW, I have the same card running in a '386 slink box. No problems.
Feel free to contact me if you have further problems. HTH, --David > -----Original Message----- > From: Manuel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 6:33 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Ethernet card problems > > > Hi there, > > I have an Intel Ether Express 16 ISA card and I'm trying to > get it to > work with linux. Linux seems to detect the card ok, but after detection > on boot up I get the message: > > eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem > > > The dos diagnostics program for the card indicates that everything is > OK, and it seems to work fine with Windows 98....I have included my boot > message,...followed by the result of ifconfig... > > Any help is appreciated, > Thanx, > Manuel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Memory: sized by int13 088h > Console: 16 point font, 400 scans > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) > pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fad40 > pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb1c0 > pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1f0 > Probing PCI hardware. > Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS > Memory: 30216k/32768k available (1136k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1032k > data) > Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 > NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. > Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 > IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP > VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized > Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. > Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. > alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done > Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Sun Feb 21 > 15:55:27 EST 1999 > Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 > Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 > tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29 > 02:46:13 $ > tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x282600 (0x28254c) > Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size > loop: registered device at major 7 > ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f > hdc: IBM-DAQA-32160, 2067MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=4200/16/63, DMA > hdd: TATUNG CD-652E, ATAPI CDROM drive > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! > scsi : 0 hosts. > scsi : detected total. > Partition check: > hdc: [PTBL] [525/128/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Adding Swap: 12060k swap-space (priority -1) > Adding Swap: 16092k swap-space (priority -2) > Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $ > eth0: EtherExpress 16 at 0x300 (IRQ 5, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k > RAM) > eth0: TDR reports transceiver problem > Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled > tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > Collisions:0 > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:3C:20:89 > inet addr:192.168.0.20 Bcast:192.168.0.255 > Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:6 errors:6 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:6 > Collisions:0 > Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300 >