2001-03-05 20:10:53

by Gianluca Anzolin

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Subject: NE2000 problem

Hello,
I'm experiencing a problem with an old NE2000 card. I use the ne.c
driver provided with 2.4.x kernels. (I'm using 2.4.2-ac11)

The problem is that I can ping the card (with any packet size)
but if I try ssh it doesn't work, the same for other programs which use
TCP. So ICMP works, TCP doesn't and also UDP doesn't work.

The interesting thing is that I can view all the packets I send
from another PC using tcpdump. So the card should work as I can see any
packet it sends.

The data of the NE2000 card follow:

chipset: UML8001
IRQ: 5
I/O ports: 0x320-0x32f
HW MAC: 55:AA:44:32:39:41

(the MAC is strange, the other cards I have begin all with 00)

Thank you for your attention,

Gianluca






2001-03-05 20:14:43

by Alan

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Subject: Re: NE2000 problem

> IRQ: 5
> I/O ports: 0x320-0x32f
> HW MAC: 55:AA:44:32:39:41
>
> (the MAC is strange, the other cards I have begin all with 00)

The mac address is broken. 55/AA is a common test pattern funnily enough. As
it has a multicast address it wont work.