DC driver real slow on 5.4/alpha 4100

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:14:45AM -0500, Bill Harris wrote:
> Bernd,
> 
> I have an identical AS4100 at home (my office heater) and had
> put 5.4 on it last week.   It also shows to be using a dc driver, the
> same DE500 card.
> 
> Well, I think I've screwed my home server up this morning.  It's
> connected to a Linksys 10/100 switch, and it had been running
> fine under 10baseT/half.
> 
> I decided to try and switch it to 100, through a telnet session (should
> have not been a problem) and the card has locked up.   I tried to set
> the card (now from the console) to auto-negiotiate, but nothing.  No
> lights at all on the card.
> 
> I've unplugged switch, card, power down, rebooted, but my network
> card is dead.  It still shows succesfully probed in the dmesg, showing
> the mac address and all, but it's interface is DOWN and won't come back
> online or show any LED's.
> 
> Having to leave for work after this fine piece of experimentation, I 
> unplugged
> everything, turned power off on the server and left.
> 
> Any ideas how I might rescue/reset my card?  What are some options?

You might have success with ifconfig down/up.

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