[PLUG] 2 Ethernets

chaz chaz at bctonline.com
Wed May 8 01:22:13 UTC 2002


Below are the gory details.
The system was working fine on both nets when running Solaris.
Linux recognize the cards but is having trouble using them.
The cards are 3Com EtherLink XL - PCI - 3C900-TPO
any insights would be appreciated.
-chaz

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route
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Kernel IP routing table

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface

209.222.171.0   *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
eth0

10.10.10.0      *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
eth1


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netstat -rn
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Kernel IP routing table

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
 Iface

209.222.171.0   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0
 eth0

10.10.10.0      0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0
 eth1


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ifconfig
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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:08:0D:0E:2A  

          inet addr:209.222.171.50  Bcast:209.222.171.255  
Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::260:8ff:fe0d:e2a/10 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:33 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 

          RX bytes:2342 (2.2 Kb)  TX bytes:3424 (3.3 Kb)

          Interrupt:18 Base address:0x6100 



eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4B:32:D9:39  

          inet addr:10.10.10.14  Bcast:10.10.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::210:4bff:fe32:d939/10 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:37 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 

          RX bytes:8289 (8.0 Kb)  TX bytes:2604 (2.5 Kb)

          Interrupt:17 Base address:0x6200 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:2520 (2.4 Kb)  TX bytes:2520 (2.4 Kb)



sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4  

          NOARP  MTU:1480  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 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)




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dmesg
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Linux version 2.4.10-4GB-SMP (root at SMP_X86.suse.de) (gcc version 2.95.3 
20010315 (SuSE)) #1 SMP Fri Sep 28 17:19:07 GMT 2001

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)

 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000 (usable)

 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)

 BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)

 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

found SMP MP-table at 000f5c50

hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.

On node 0 totalpages: 32768

zone(0): 4096 pages.

zone(1): 28672 pages.

zone(2): 0 pages.

Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1

    Virtual Wire compatibility mode.

OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000

Processor #0 Pentium(tm) APIC version 17

Processor #1 Pentium(tm) APIC version 17

I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.

Processors: 2

Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=303 
BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz enableapic vga=0x0314

Initializing CPU#0

Detected 197.821 MHz processor.

Console: colour dummy device 80x25

Calibrating delay loop... 393.21 BogoMIPS

Memory: 125676k/131072k available (1397k kernel code, 5012k reserved, 
391k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)

Dentry-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)

Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0

Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.

Intel old style machine check architecture supported.

Intel old style machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.

CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU:     After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU:             Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)

mtrr: detected mtrr type: none

CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0

Intel old style machine check architecture supported.

Intel old style machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.

CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU:     After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU:             Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000

CPU0: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03

per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 160.51 usecs.

BIOS bug, local APIC #0 not detected!...

... forcing use of dummy APIC emulation. (tell your hw vendor)

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb5a0, last bus=0

PCI: Using configuration type 1

PCI: Probing PCI hardware

disabling PIRQ3

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I17,P0) -> 19

disabling PIRQ2

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I18,P0) -> 18

disabling PIRQ1

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I19,P0) -> 17

Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.

Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4

Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039

Initializing RT netlink socket

apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.14)

Starting kswapd

VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized

vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xc8802000, size 4096k

vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1920, pages=2

vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:7e00

vesafb: scrolling: redraw

vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0

Looking for boot splash picture... no good signature found.

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37

fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.

pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured

Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
 SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled

ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e

block: 128 slots per queue, batch=16

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with 
idebus=xx

PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39

PIIX3: chipset revision 0

PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio

    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio

hda: WDC AC35100L, ATA DISK drive

hdc: WDC AC35100L, ATA DISK drive

hdd: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

hda: 10085040 sectors (5164 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=627/255/63, (U)DMA

hdc: 10085040 sectors (5164 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=10672/15/63, (U)DMA

hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, (U)DMA

Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv

Partition check:

 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3

 hda2: <solaris: [s0] hda5 [s1] hda6 [s2] hda7 [s6] hda8 [s7] hda9 >

 hdc: [PTBL] [627/255/63] hdc1 hdc2

 hdc2: <solaris: [s0] hdc5 [s1] hdc6 [s2] hdc7 [s6] hdc8 [s7] hdc9 >

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

loop: loaded (max 8 devices)

ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00

request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted

request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted

md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27

md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.

md: autorun ...

md: ... autorun DONE.

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0

IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP

IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)

Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

Uncompressing...................................................done.

Freeing initrd memory: 518k freed

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

FAT: bogus logical sector size 14901

FAT: bogus logical sector size 14901

reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:03) ...

Using r5 hash to sort names

reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format

ReiserFS version 3.6.25

VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.

change_root: old root has d_count=2

Trying to unmount old root ... okay

Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed

Adding Swap: 265064k swap-space (priority 42)

Unable to find swap-space signature

Unable to find swap-space signature

3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html

00:12.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10baseT at 0x6100. Vers LK1.1.16

00:13.0: 3Com PCI 3c900 Boomerang 10baseT at 0x6200. Vers LK1.1.16

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs

usb.c: registered new driver hub

uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x6000, IRQ 11

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 2 ports detected

uhci.c: :USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver

IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0

IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver

eth1: no IPv6 routers present

eth0: no IPv6 routers present

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out

eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.

  diagnostics: net 0cc0 media 88c0 dma 0000003b.

eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another 
device?

  Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 16(0) current 16(0)

  Transmit list 00000000 vs. c7746200.

  0: @c7746200  length 8000004e status 0000004e

  1: @c7746240  length 80000046 status 00000046

  2: @c7746280  length 80000046 status 00000046

  3: @c77462c0  length 80000046 status 00000046

  4: @c7746300  length 8000005c status 0000005c

  5: @c7746340  length 8000005c status 0000005c

  6: @c7746380  length 8000005c status 0000005c

  7: @c77463c0  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  8: @c7746400  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  9: @c7746440  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  10: @c7746480  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  11: @c77464c0  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  12: @c7746500  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  13: @c7746540  length 8000005c status 0000005c

  14: @c7746580  length 8000005c status 8000005c

  15: @c77465c0  length 8000005c status 8000005c

eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out

eth1: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e601.

  diagnostics: net 0cc0 media 88c0 dma 0000003b.

eth1: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another 
device?

  Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 16(0) current 16(0)

  Transmit list 00000000 vs. c7707200.

  0: @c7707200  length 8000004e status 0000004e

  1: @c7707240  length 80000046 status 00000046

  2: @c7707280  length 80000046 status 00000046

  3: @c77072c0  length 80000046 status 00000046

  4: @c7707300  length 8000003a status 0000003a

  5: @c7707340  length 8000005c status 0000005c

  6: @c7707380  length 8000005c status 0000005c

  7: @c77073c0  length 8000005c status 0000005c

  8: @c7707400  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  9: @c7707440  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  10: @c7707480  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  11: @c77074c0  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  12: @c7707500  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  13: @c7707540  length 8000002a status 0000002a

  14: @c7707580  length 8000003a status 8000003a

  15: @c77075c0  length 8000005c status 8000005c

eth1: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.

isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...

isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00

isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range

isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP'

isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total

eth0: no IPv6 routers present

eth1: no IPv6 routers present



Derek Loree  wrote:
>---------------------------------------------------
>Hi chaz,
>
>
>On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 16:01, chaz wrote:
>> I have a system with 2 ethernet cards.
>> I'm replacing Solaris with SuSE Linux.
>> I can't get the ethernet ports to work.
>What doesn't work about them?  What kind (make and model) are they?
>> Is there anyone on this list that has experiance with multiple 
>> ethernets?
>Some modules have a hard time loading twice, but that is model 
specific.
>
>More information is needed to really help you out, tell us what you 
have
>tried, and what happened when you tried it.  The output from dmesg 
might
>help too.
>
>Derek Loree
>
>
>
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