3c59x (3COM) via_rhine (Realtek) under conflict.

sparc86 · 06-24-2007, 04:53 PM

Hello, community.

I have a Linux box running Slackware 11.0 and also two network cards inside. 3c59x (3COM) via_rhine (Realtek), both PCI.

I cannot have both working together, they keep in conflict.

For example, if I have my realtek together with 3COM, then the realtek doesn't works, I can't even ping another IP (sometimes it works, but then is the 3COM which doesn't works).

Then if the realtek is not working, I take off the 3COM from the box and it is working. I already tried to use two 3COM, but then NOTHING works. I know they are in conflict, I just don't understand why.

Does anyone here fell under the same situation before?

My dmesg:

Quote:

Linux version 2.6.18 (root@eisenbahn) (gcc version 3.4.6) #29 Mon Aug 6 02:39:54 AMT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000008000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
128MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32768
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 28672 pages, LIFO batch:7
DMI not present or invalid.
Allocating PCI resources starting at 10000000 (gap: 08000000:f6c00000)
Detected 334.101 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 32768
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301 acpi=off apm=off
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01101000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
Console: colour VGA+ 80x60
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 126132k/131072k available (2241k kernel code, 4548k reserved, 747k data, 188k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 668.47 BogoMIPS (lpj=334238)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 128 Mb
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb61, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:00.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 0000:00:01.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
IO window: c000-cfff
MEM window: f7900000-f79fffff
PREFETCH window: f6700000-f77fffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 2048)
TCP reno registered
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:00.1
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:00.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS5591/2 ATA 33 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda

io, hdb

io
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc

io, hdd

io
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 20, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39876480 sectors (20416 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3
hda3: <bsd: hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
ReiserFS: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
atkbd.c: Spurious NAK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly.
ReiserFS: hda1: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda1: journal params: device hda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda1: checking transaction log (hda1)
ReiserFS: hda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
Unable to find swap-space signature
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
agpgart: Unsupported SiS chipset (device id: 5591)
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.4.1 July-24-2006 Written by Donald Becker
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:09.0
eth0: VIA Rhine III at 0x1dc00, 00:02:2a:b7:00:2e, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 05e1 Link 0000.
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0b.0
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:00:0b.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at c88dee80.
Unable to find swap-space signature
eth0: link down
eth1: setting full-duplex.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (1024 buckets, 8192 max) - 204 bytes per conntrack
NET: Registered protocol family 10
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5).
portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5).
portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out
RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5).
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

Thanks in advance for your help!

Morpheus · 06-24-2007, 11:27 PM

are you using IPV6 ? if not then please try disabling it and try again.

To disable IPV6
edit /etc/sysconfig/network

Change:
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
to
NETWORKING_IPV6=no

Cheers!

sparc86 · 06-25-2007, 07:36 AM

It's into my Slackware box and I'm not sure how to disable the ipv6 on Slackware.
But I'm going to check this later, at home. Now I'm at the work.

Thank you!

sparc86 · 07-29-2007, 05:53 PM

Does anybody has any ideas?

jlinkels · 07-30-2007, 06:17 AM

This might nit be really helping you, but I had the same problem last week. First I had a Realtek and a 3Com installed in this machine. They worked.

Then I added a second 3Com and there was no way I could get the Realtek to work with 2 3Com cards.

Two 3Com cards alone worked fine. Then I took out the Realtek and inserted a third 3Com. That worked as well. All 3 3Coms are identical.

On this machine I am running Debian Sarge and kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4, pretty old.

I faced once the problem that I could not get two 3Coms working at the same time, but that was with very old hardware, although kernel 2.6.8.

Nevertheless, it seems that the problem is somewhere related to hardware/mainbaord/BIOS. I have so many different machines with comparable kernel versions, and it is always a surprise how PCI NICs are behaving.

I only can recommend to move the NICs around in the PCI slots. There are different versions on PCI slots if I remember well, those which can be master and those which cannot. Try to change the sequence in which they are inserted. Try to load Knoppix and see what that does.

jlinkels

sparc86 · 07-30-2007, 12:51 PM

Thank you very much. Actually, I've tried to change the slots some months ago but it didn't work.

The only thing I didn't try was to use both 3COM, despite one 3COM and one Realtek.
I will try it as soon as I find one more 3COM card to test it (or realtek) and then I will tell you all if it worked or not.