pcnet32 driver doesn't work for AT2450-FTX?

Greetings

Having an Allied Telesyn AT2450 and using the fibre connectors I'm
having big problems getting on net.

The pcnet32 (v. 1.27a) and MII modules loads fine. I'm using a new
install of Fedora Core 1 (precomiled kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl). I
checked with a 10MB/s media converter to the TP-connector and the link
is present during the first part of the boot, but then the link light
goes black and I get "no link present. Check cable?" The same thing
happens with the FD-connector. However, I've tested another box using
another NIC with the same media converter on the same line and the
connection is fine. So I'm kind of ... lost!(?)

Some (hopefully) relevant info:
(From lspci):
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970
[PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 16)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]

(From dmesg):
pcnet32.c:v1.27a 10.02.2002 (E-Mail Removed)
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0b.0
pcnet32: PCnet/PCI II 79C970A at 0xd000, warning: CSR address invalid,
using instead PROM address of 00 00 f4 c3 aa b0 assigned IRQ 10.
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A
pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

(From ethtool):
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 10Mb/s
Duplex: Half
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: off
Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
Link detected: no

# cat /etc/modules.conf
alias eth0 pcnet32
alias usb-controller usb-uhci

(From pcnet32.c):
#define DRV_NAME "pcnet32"
#define DRV_VERSION "1.27a"
#define DRV_RELDATE "10.02.2002"
#define PFX DRV_NAME ": "

The /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 script looks normal. And
DHCP is working.

BTW, the link below seems to be a patch, but only valid for the 2.2.18
kernel.
I guess that is only for an older version of pcnet32.
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...01.2/0010.html

Any suggestions?
Anyone?

Regards,
Runar Jørgensen

In comp.os.linux.networking Runar J?rgensen <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Greetings

> Having an Allied Telesyn AT2450 and using the fibre connectors I'm
> having big problems getting on net.

> The pcnet32 (v. 1.27a) and MII modules loads fine. I'm using a new
> install of Fedora Core 1 (precomiled kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl). I
> checked with a 10MB/s media converter to the TP-connector and the link

Hi!

Do yourself a big favor and don't use pcnet32 cards (fiber
connector) with Linux. I can only remember problems with those on
various distro, exchanging with something known to work
(3com/intel/etc) solved all LAN problems instantly.

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Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<sevk52-(E-Mail Removed)>...

> Hi!
>
> Do yourself a big favor and don't use pcnet32 cards (fiber
> connector) with Linux. I can only remember problems with those on
> various distro, exchanging with something known to work
> (3com/intel/etc) solved all LAN problems instantly.

Greetings
Thanks for your reply. I do agree with your suggestion.
However, I'm stuck with the AT-2450-FTX on this one.
Or at least I'm stuck with using fibre. Any suggestions to
specific combo of card & driver that does work with fibre connectors?

Regards,
Runar Jørgensen

In comp.os.linux.networking Runar J?rgensen <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Michael Heiming <michael+(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<sevk52-(E-Mail Removed)>...
[..]

> Greetings
> Thanks for your reply. I do agree with your suggestion.
> However, I'm stuck with the AT-2450-FTX on this one.
> Or at least I'm stuck with using fibre. Any suggestions to
> specific combo of card & driver that does work with fibre connectors?

Those small Allied Telesyn media converter fiber <-> TP work like
a charm and you can use whatever NIC you like, 3com/intel offer
the best performance/reliability, for some desktop you can
usually use cheaper ones like rtl8139 based cards. If the real
reason for running fiber is that the size of your building
exceeds the limits for TP?

Good luck

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