Description of Problem: During install anaconda detects this card: 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 21) Subsystem: Cogent Data Technologies, Inc. ANA-6911A/TXC Fast Ethernet Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 9 I/O ports at d600 [size=128] Memory at effffe80 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] Expansion ROM at eff80000 [disabled] [size=256K] and assigns the tulip driver to it. this fails to correctly initialize the card, it does not get a link (its a 10/100 tp and bnc combo card). Jul 14 22:14:01 localhost kernel: Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre11 (May 11, 2002) Jul 14 22:14:01 localhost kernel: AMD756: dev 1011:0019, router pirq : 3 get irq : 9 Jul 14 22:14:01 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0 Jul 14 22:14:01 localhost kernel: tulip0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. Jul 14 22:14:01 localhost kernel: tulip0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block. Jul 14 22:14:01 localhost kernel: tulip0: Index #1 - Media 10base2 (#1) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. Jul 14 22:14:01 localhost kernel: tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7849 advertising 0101. Jul 14 22:14:01 localhost kernel: eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 33 at 0xd08f7e80, 00:00:D1:10:6F:56, IRQ 9. It is detected, but no link This results in inability to network install, inability to use networking after install. To fix: Use de4x5 driver. This correctly initialises the card. 14 23:32:01 localhost kernel: eth0: DC21143 at 0xd600 (PCI bus 0, device 10), h/w address 00:00:d1:10:6f:56, Jul 14 23:32:01 localhost kernel: and requires IRQ9 (provided by PCI BIOS). Jul 14 23:32:01 localhost kernel: de4x5.c:V0.546 2001/02/22 davies.com Jul 14 23:32:01 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifup eth0 Jul 14 23:32:04 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth1 Jul 14 23:32:04 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth2 Jul 14 23:32:04 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth3 Jul 14 23:32:04 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth4 Jul 14 23:32:04 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth5 Jul 14 23:32:04 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth6 Jul 14 23:32:04 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module eth7 Jul 14 23:32:05 localhost kernel: eth0: media is 100Mb/s. Jul 14 23:32:09 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5 Jul 14 23:32:09 localhost dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.253 lspci -x 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 21) 00: 11 10 19 00 17 01 80 02 21 00 00 02 08 60 00 00 10: 01 d6 00 00 80 fe ff ef 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 11 00 2b 30: 00 00 f8 ef 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 09 01 14 28
The driver fails to work somewhat randomly depending on the card revision and what sort of hub/switch it's attached to. I'm not sure there's much we can do about this. :(
If you boot with linux noprobe, you can manually select to load a driver disk (drvnet.img) and use the other driver for this card.