[Nubus-pmac-users] Asix AX88190 PCMCIA card - does not work with nubus-pmac kernel

[Ed S. <ed....@gm...>]

Thought I'd pass this along.  I got Debian Sarge r5 installed on my
1400 tonight.  I found (finally) a Linksys 10/100 card that detects
as:

Asiz AX88190 card (io 0xcd0ee300, irq 24, hw_addr 00:00:00:00:00:00)
  No MII transceivers found!

If I run mii-tool, I get:
eth1: 10Mbit, half duplex, no link

Yet, I am getting link.  I can set the IP address manually and get:

ifconfig eth1 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.252 broadcast 192.168.0.255 up
Hw. address read/write mismap 0
Hw. address read/write mismap 2
Hw. address read/write mismap 4

If I try 'dhclient eth1', I get:

gre0: unknown hardware address type 778
Hw. address read/write mismap 0
gre0: unknown hardware address type 778
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:00:00:00:00:00
SEnding on  LPF/eth1/00:00:00:00:00:00
Sending on  Socket/fallback/fallback-net
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
eth1: interrupt(s) dropped!
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs 4c.
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs  0.
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs  0.
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs  0.
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs  0.
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs  0.
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs  0.
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs  0.
eth1: mismatched read page pointers  2 vs  0.
eth1: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x40
...

It keeps repeating that until complaining about no DHCPOFFER being
recieved.  All I can say is I'm totally confused.  Also a little
curious about the MAC address being blank.  Weird.  Here's the prod
info from cardctl ident

Socket 1:
  product info: "Network Everywhere", "Fast Ethernet 10/100 PC Card",
"3,0", "AX88190"
  manfid: 0x0149,0xc1ab
  function: 6 (network)

I did have to go into the /etc/pcmcia/config file and change the
driver from a pcnet_cs to axnet_cs.  It just complains that I need to
change it anyhow.

Let me know what you guys think.. I used to have a Dayna Communicard
around here for this thing, but I can't find it anywhere.  If I can
get this sucker on the network, I'm gonna be a VERY happy camper.

Ed

I used the 2.4.27 image from the sourceforge website with the Sarge
installer.  I installed from just the first CD.