Hi,
(This email was originally sent to wpaul directly, without response. I'm
hoping a wider distribution may help to solve my problem)
I have a Xircom RBE-100 RealPort CardBus Ethernet 10/100 PCMCIA card,
which is not working correctly under 5.0-CURRENT. With the driver
unmodified, I get the following:
dc0: <Xircom X3201 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1000-0x107f mem
0x84002000-0x840020ff,0x84002000-0x8400207f irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
dc0: Ethernet address: 02:06:00:22:08:04
dc0: MII without any PHY!
device_probe_and_attach: dc0 attach returned 6
pccbb0: CardBus card activation failed
After probing around in the code, I decided to start trying things which
looked like possible candidates to be changed. After discovering that
forcing sc->dc_pmode to DC_PMODE_SYM helped, I tried the following:
--- if_dc.c.old Wed Jan 16 16:33:58 2002
+++ if_dc.c Sun Mar 17 22:25:02 2002
@@ -1989,7 +1989,7 @@
* The tricky ones are the Macronix/PNIC II and the
* Intel 21143.
*/
- if (DC_IS_INTEL(sc))
+ if (DC_IS_INTEL(sc) || DC_IS_XIRCOM(sc))
dc_parse_21143_srom(sc);
else if (DC_IS_MACRONIX(sc) || DC_IS_PNICII(sc)) {
if (sc->dc_type == DC_TYPE_98713)
This now produces the following output:
dc0: <Xircom X3201 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1000-0x107f mem
0x84002000-0x840020ff,0x84002100-0x8400217f irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
dc0: Ethernet address: 02:06:00:22:08:04
miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
dcphy0: <Intel 21143 NWAY media interface> on miibus0
dcphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
It's starting to look promising. I even get a (red) link light on the
card, and once an IP is configured, ifconfig can tell if the link exists
or not, though cannot establish what the speed of it is (this is into a
100M switch). However, I still have almost no network connectivity with
it. An outbound ping loses 100% of packets, and hosts trying to ping it
cannot arp it's MAC address. However, once I have forced an entry into the
arp table of the second host, I can ping the Xircom card, albeit very
slowly (snipped down for clarity):
PING epsilon.ury.york.ac.uk (10.0.0.109): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=211 ttl=64 time=2020.368 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=216 ttl=64 time=3030.348 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=217 ttl=64 time=2020.406 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=223 ttl=64 time=2020.374 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=229 ttl=64 time=2020.374 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=253 ttl=64 time=7070.335 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=255 ttl=64 time=5050.412 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=286 ttl=64 time=6060.318 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=287 ttl=64 time=5050.348 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.109: icmp_seq=288 ttl=64 time=4040.382 ms
--- epsilon.ury.york.ac.uk ping statistics ---
311 packets transmitted, 139 packets received, 55% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 614.382/5760.691/9090.237/2161.803 ms
Note the large mean time, and the fact that I consistantly lose 55% of
packets. Watching the link light, the card seems to receive the packets
instantly, buffer three or four, then lose the link. WHen the link comes
back, the replies to these packets all get sent back at once.
I'm now at a loss as to where to go. I have no idea how to progress with
this, as i'm not a kernel hacker. Has anyone seen this before? If it
helps, I am using revision 3 of the card (read using
pci_read_config(dev, DC_PCI_CFRV, 4) & 0xff), and it's on a Toshiba ToPIC
95B cardbus bridge.
If anyone can help, i'd be most greatful...
Thanks,
Gavin
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