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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 18:20:36 -0400 |
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1 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
2 | NOTE: See also arcnet-hardware.txt in this directory for jumper-setting | ||
3 | and cabling information if you're like many of us and didn't happen to get a | ||
4 | manual with your ARCnet card. | ||
5 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
6 | |||
7 | Since no one seems to listen to me otherwise, perhaps a poem will get your | ||
8 | attention: | ||
9 | This driver's getting fat and beefy, | ||
10 | But my cat is still named Fifi. | ||
11 | |||
12 | Hmm, I think I'm allowed to call that a poem, even though it's only two | ||
13 | lines. Hey, I'm in Computer Science, not English. Give me a break. | ||
14 | |||
15 | The point is: I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want to hear from you if | ||
16 | you test this and get it working. Or if you don't. Or anything. | ||
17 | |||
18 | ARCnet 0.32 ALPHA first made it into the Linux kernel 1.1.80 - this was | ||
19 | nice, but after that even FEWER people started writing to me because they | ||
20 | didn't even have to install the patch. <sigh> | ||
21 | |||
22 | Come on, be a sport! Send me a success report! | ||
23 | |||
24 | (hey, that was even better than my original poem... this is getting bad!) | ||
25 | |||
26 | |||
27 | -------- | ||
28 | WARNING: | ||
29 | -------- | ||
30 | |||
31 | If you don't e-mail me about your success/failure soon, I may be forced to | ||
32 | start SINGING. And we don't want that, do we? | ||
33 | |||
34 | (You know, it might be argued that I'm pushing this point a little too much. | ||
35 | If you think so, why not flame me in a quick little e-mail? Please also | ||
36 | include the type of card(s) you're using, software, size of network, and | ||
37 | whether it's working or not.) | ||
38 | |||
39 | My e-mail address is: apenwarr@worldvisions.ca | ||
40 | |||
41 | |||
42 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ||
43 | |||
44 | |||
45 | These are the ARCnet drivers for Linux. | ||
46 | |||
47 | |||
48 | This new release (2.91) has been put together by David Woodhouse | ||
49 | <dwmw2@cam.ac.uk>, in an attempt to tidy up the driver after adding support | ||
50 | for yet another chipset. Now the generic support has been separated from the | ||
51 | individual chipset drivers, and the source files aren't quite so packed with | ||
52 | #ifdefs! I've changed this file a bit, but kept it in the first person from | ||
53 | Avery, because I didn't want to completely rewrite it. | ||
54 | |||
55 | The previous release resulted from many months of on-and-off effort from me | ||
56 | (Avery Pennarun), many bug reports/fixes and suggestions from others, and in | ||
57 | particular a lot of input and coding from Tomasz Motylewski. Starting with | ||
58 | ARCnet 2.10 ALPHA, Tomasz's all-new-and-improved RFC1051 support has been | ||
59 | included and seems to be working fine! | ||
60 | |||
61 | |||
62 | Where do I discuss these drivers? | ||
63 | --------------------------------- | ||
64 | |||
65 | Tomasz has been so kind as to set up a new and improved mailing list. | ||
66 | Subscribe by sending a message with the BODY "subscribe linux-arcnet YOUR | ||
67 | REAL NAME" to listserv@tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl. Then, to submit messages to the | ||
68 | list, mail to linux-arcnet@tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl. | ||
69 | |||
70 | There are archives of the mailing list at: | ||
71 | http://tichy.ch.uj.edu.pl/lists/linux-arcnet | ||
72 | |||
73 | The people on linux-net@vger.kernel.org have also been known to be very | ||
74 | helpful, especially when we're talking about ALPHA Linux kernels that may or | ||
75 | may not work right in the first place. | ||
76 | |||
77 | |||
78 | Other Drivers and Info | ||
79 | ---------------------- | ||
80 | |||
81 | You can try my ARCNET page on the World Wide Web at: | ||
82 | http://www.worldvisions.ca/~apenwarr/arcnet/ | ||
83 | |||
84 | Also, SMC (one of the companies that makes ARCnet cards) has a WWW site you | ||
85 | might be interested in, which includes several drivers for various cards | ||
86 | including ARCnet. Try: | ||
87 | http://www.smc.com/ | ||
88 | |||
89 | Performance Technologies makes various network software that supports | ||
90 | ARCnet: | ||
91 | http://www.perftech.com/ or ftp to ftp.perftech.com. | ||
92 | |||
93 | Novell makes a networking stack for DOS which includes ARCnet drivers. Try | ||
94 | FTPing to ftp.novell.com. | ||
95 | |||
96 | You can get the Crynwr packet driver collection (including arcether.com, the | ||
97 | one you'll want to use with ARCnet cards) from | ||
98 | oak.oakland.edu:/simtel/msdos/pktdrvr. It won't work perfectly on a 386+ | ||
99 | without patches, though, and also doesn't like several cards. Fixed | ||
100 | versions are available on my WWW page, or via e-mail if you don't have WWW | ||
101 | access. | ||
102 | |||
103 | |||
104 | Installing the Driver | ||
105 | --------------------- | ||
106 | |||
107 | All you will need to do in order to install the driver is: | ||
108 | make config | ||
109 | (be sure to choose ARCnet in the network devices | ||
110 | and at least one chipset driver.) | ||
111 | make clean | ||
112 | make zImage | ||
113 | |||
114 | If you obtained this ARCnet package as an upgrade to the ARCnet driver in | ||
115 | your current kernel, you will need to first copy arcnet.c over the one in | ||
116 | the linux/drivers/net directory. | ||
117 | |||
118 | You will know the driver is installed properly if you get some ARCnet | ||
119 | messages when you reboot into the new Linux kernel. | ||
120 | |||
121 | There are four chipset options: | ||
122 | |||
123 | 1. Standard ARCnet COM90xx chipset. | ||
124 | |||
125 | This is the normal ARCnet card, which you've probably got. This is the only | ||
126 | chipset driver which will autoprobe if not told where the card is. | ||
127 | It following options on the command line: | ||
128 | com90xx=[<io>[,<irq>[,<shmem>]]][,<name>] | <name> | ||
129 | |||
130 | If you load the chipset support as a module, the options are: | ||
131 | io=<io> irq=<irq> shmem=<shmem> device=<name> | ||
132 | |||
133 | To disable the autoprobe, just specify "com90xx=" on the kernel command line. | ||
134 | To specify the name alone, but allow autoprobe, just put "com90xx=<name>" | ||
135 | |||
136 | 2. ARCnet COM20020 chipset. | ||
137 | |||
138 | This is the new chipset from SMC with support for promiscuous mode (packet | ||
139 | sniffing), extra diagnostic information, etc. Unfortunately, there is no | ||
140 | sensible method of autoprobing for these cards. You must specify the I/O | ||
141 | address on the kernel command line. | ||
142 | The command line options are: | ||
143 | com20020=<io>[,<irq>[,<node_ID>[,backplane[,CKP[,timeout]]]]][,name] | ||
144 | |||
145 | If you load the chipset support as a module, the options are: | ||
146 | io=<io> irq=<irq> node=<node_ID> backplane=<backplane> clock=<CKP> | ||
147 | timeout=<timeout> device=<name> | ||
148 | |||
149 | The COM20020 chipset allows you to set the node ID in software, overriding the | ||
150 | default which is still set in DIP switches on the card. If you don't have the | ||
151 | COM20020 data sheets, and you don't know what the other three options refer | ||
152 | to, then they won't interest you - forget them. | ||
153 | |||
154 | 3. ARCnet COM90xx chipset in IO-mapped mode. | ||
155 | |||
156 | This will also work with the normal ARCnet cards, but doesn't use the shared | ||
157 | memory. It performs less well than the above driver, but is provided in case | ||
158 | you have a card which doesn't support shared memory, or (strangely) in case | ||
159 | you have so many ARCnet cards in your machine that you run out of shmem slots. | ||
160 | If you don't give the IO address on the kernel command line, then the driver | ||
161 | will not find the card. | ||
162 | The command line options are: | ||
163 | com90io=<io>[,<irq>][,<name>] | ||
164 | |||
165 | If you load the chipset support as a module, the options are: | ||
166 | io=<io> irq=<irq> device=<name> | ||
167 | |||
168 | 4. ARCnet RIM I cards. | ||
169 | |||
170 | These are COM90xx chips which are _completely_ memory mapped. The support for | ||
171 | these is not tested. If you have one, please mail the author with a success | ||
172 | report. All options must be specified, except the device name. | ||
173 | Command line options: | ||
174 | arcrimi=<shmem>,<irq>,<node_ID>[,<name>] | ||
175 | |||
176 | If you load the chipset support as a module, the options are: | ||
177 | shmem=<shmem> irq=<irq> node=<node_ID> device=<name> | ||
178 | |||
179 | |||
180 | Loadable Module Support | ||
181 | ----------------------- | ||
182 | |||
183 | Configure and rebuild Linux. When asked, answer 'm' to "Generic ARCnet | ||
184 | support" and to support for your ARCnet chipset if you want to use the | ||
185 | loadable module. You can also say 'y' to "Generic ARCnet support" and 'm' | ||
186 | to the chipset support if you wish. | ||
187 | |||
188 | make config | ||
189 | make clean | ||
190 | make zImage | ||
191 | make modules | ||
192 | |||
193 | If you're using a loadable module, you need to use insmod to load it, and | ||
194 | you can specify various characteristics of your card on the command | ||
195 | line. (In recent versions of the driver, autoprobing is much more reliable | ||
196 | and works as a module, so most of this is now unnecessary.) | ||
197 | |||
198 | For example: | ||
199 | cd /usr/src/linux/modules | ||
200 | insmod arcnet.o | ||
201 | insmod com90xx.o | ||
202 | insmod com20020.o io=0x2e0 device=eth1 | ||
203 | |||
204 | |||
205 | Using the Driver | ||
206 | ---------------- | ||
207 | |||
208 | If you build your kernel with ARCnet COM90xx support included, it should | ||
209 | probe for your card automatically when you boot. If you use a different | ||
210 | chipset driver complied into the kernel, you must give the necessary options | ||
211 | on the kernel command line, as detailed above. | ||
212 | |||
213 | Go read the NET-2-HOWTO and ETHERNET-HOWTO for Linux; they should be | ||
214 | available where you picked up this driver. Think of your ARCnet as a | ||
215 | souped-up (or down, as the case may be) Ethernet card. | ||
216 | |||
217 | By the way, be sure to change all references from "eth0" to "arc0" in the | ||
218 | HOWTOs. Remember that ARCnet isn't a "true" Ethernet, and the device name | ||
219 | is DIFFERENT. | ||
220 | |||
221 | |||
222 | Multiple Cards in One Computer | ||
223 | ------------------------------ | ||
224 | |||
225 | Linux has pretty good support for this now, but since I've been busy, the | ||
226 | ARCnet driver has somewhat suffered in this respect. COM90xx support, if | ||
227 | compiled into the kernel, will (try to) autodetect all the installed cards. | ||
228 | |||
229 | If you have other cards, with support compiled into the kernel, then you can | ||
230 | just repeat the options on the kernel command line, e.g.: | ||
231 | LILO: linux com20020=0x2e0 com20020=0x380 com90io=0x260 | ||
232 | |||
233 | If you have the chipset support built as a loadable module, then you need to | ||
234 | do something like this: | ||
235 | insmod -o arc0 com90xx | ||
236 | insmod -o arc1 com20020 io=0x2e0 | ||
237 | insmod -o arc2 com90xx | ||
238 | The ARCnet drivers will now sort out their names automatically. | ||
239 | |||
240 | |||
241 | How do I get it to work with...? | ||
242 | -------------------------------- | ||
243 | |||
244 | NFS: Should be fine linux->linux, just pretend you're using Ethernet cards. | ||
245 | oak.oakland.edu:/simtel/msdos/nfs has some nice DOS clients. There | ||
246 | is also a DOS-based NFS server called SOSS. It doesn't multitask | ||
247 | quite the way Linux does (actually, it doesn't multitask AT ALL) but | ||
248 | you never know what you might need. | ||
249 | |||
250 | With AmiTCP (and possibly others), you may need to set the following | ||
251 | options in your Amiga nfstab: MD 1024 MR 1024 MW 1024 | ||
252 | (Thanks to Christian Gottschling <ferksy@indigo.tng.oche.de> | ||
253 | for this.) | ||
254 | |||
255 | Probably these refer to maximum NFS data/read/write block sizes. I | ||
256 | don't know why the defaults on the Amiga didn't work; write to me if | ||
257 | you know more. | ||
258 | |||
259 | DOS: If you're using the freeware arcether.com, you might want to install | ||
260 | the driver patch from my web page. It helps with PC/TCP, and also | ||
261 | can get arcether to load if it timed out too quickly during | ||
262 | initialization. In fact, if you use it on a 386+ you REALLY need | ||
263 | the patch, really. | ||
264 | |||
265 | Windows: See DOS :) Trumpet Winsock works fine with either the Novell or | ||
266 | Arcether client, assuming you remember to load winpkt of course. | ||
267 | |||
268 | LAN Manager and Windows for Workgroups: These programs use protocols that | ||
269 | are incompatible with the Internet standard. They try to pretend | ||
270 | the cards are Ethernet, and confuse everyone else on the network. | ||
271 | |||
272 | However, v2.00 and higher of the Linux ARCnet driver supports this | ||
273 | protocol via the 'arc0e' device. See the section on "Multiprotocol | ||
274 | Support" for more information. | ||
275 | |||
276 | Using the freeware Samba server and clients for Linux, you can now | ||
277 | interface quite nicely with TCP/IP-based WfWg or Lan Manager | ||
278 | networks. | ||
279 | |||
280 | Windows 95: Tools are included with Win95 that let you use either the LANMAN | ||
281 | style network drivers (NDIS) or Novell drivers (ODI) to handle your | ||
282 | ARCnet packets. If you use ODI, you'll need to use the 'arc0' | ||
283 | device with Linux. If you use NDIS, then try the 'arc0e' device. | ||
284 | See the "Multiprotocol Support" section below if you need arc0e, | ||
285 | you're completely insane, and/or you need to build some kind of | ||
286 | hybrid network that uses both encapsulation types. | ||
287 | |||
288 | OS/2: I've been told it works under Warp Connect with an ARCnet driver from | ||
289 | SMC. You need to use the 'arc0e' interface for this. If you get | ||
290 | the SMC driver to work with the TCP/IP stuff included in the | ||
291 | "normal" Warp Bonus Pack, let me know. | ||
292 | |||
293 | ftp.microsoft.com also has a freeware "Lan Manager for OS/2" client | ||
294 | which should use the same protocol as WfWg does. I had no luck | ||
295 | installing it under Warp, however. Please mail me with any results. | ||
296 | |||
297 | NetBSD/AmiTCP: These use an old version of the Internet standard ARCnet | ||
298 | protocol (RFC1051) which is compatible with the Linux driver v2.10 | ||
299 | ALPHA and above using the arc0s device. (See "Multiprotocol ARCnet" | ||
300 | below.) ** Newer versions of NetBSD apparently support RFC1201. | ||
301 | |||
302 | |||
303 | Using Multiprotocol ARCnet | ||
304 | -------------------------- | ||
305 | |||
306 | The ARCnet driver v2.10 ALPHA supports three protocols, each on its own | ||
307 | "virtual network device": | ||
308 | |||
309 | arc0 - RFC1201 protocol, the official Internet standard which just | ||
310 | happens to be 100% compatible with Novell's TRXNET driver. | ||
311 | Version 1.00 of the ARCnet driver supported _only_ this | ||
312 | protocol. arc0 is the fastest of the three protocols (for | ||
313 | whatever reason), and allows larger packets to be used | ||
314 | because it supports RFC1201 "packet splitting" operations. | ||
315 | Unless you have a specific need to use a different protocol, | ||
316 | I strongly suggest that you stick with this one. | ||
317 | |||
318 | arc0e - "Ethernet-Encapsulation" which sends packets over ARCnet | ||
319 | that are actually a lot like Ethernet packets, including the | ||
320 | 6-byte hardware addresses. This protocol is compatible with | ||
321 | Microsoft's NDIS ARCnet driver, like the one in WfWg and | ||
322 | LANMAN. Because the MTU of 493 is actually smaller than the | ||
323 | one "required" by TCP/IP (576), there is a chance that some | ||
324 | network operations will not function properly. The Linux | ||
325 | TCP/IP layer can compensate in most cases, however, by | ||
326 | automatically fragmenting the TCP/IP packets to make them | ||
327 | fit. arc0e also works slightly more slowly than arc0, for | ||
328 | reasons yet to be determined. (Probably it's the smaller | ||
329 | MTU that does it.) | ||
330 | |||
331 | arc0s - The "[s]imple" RFC1051 protocol is the "previous" Internet | ||
332 | standard that is completely incompatible with the new | ||
333 | standard. Some software today, however, continues to | ||
334 | support the old standard (and only the old standard) | ||
335 | including NetBSD and AmiTCP. RFC1051 also does not support | ||
336 | RFC1201's packet splitting, and the MTU of 507 is still | ||
337 | smaller than the Internet "requirement," so it's quite | ||
338 | possible that you may run into problems. It's also slower | ||
339 | than RFC1201 by about 25%, for the same reason as arc0e. | ||
340 | |||
341 | The arc0s support was contributed by Tomasz Motylewski | ||
342 | and modified somewhat by me. Bugs are probably my fault. | ||
343 | |||
344 | You can choose not to compile arc0e and arc0s into the driver if you want - | ||
345 | this will save you a bit of memory and avoid confusion when eg. trying to | ||
346 | use the "NFS-root" stuff in recent Linux kernels. | ||
347 | |||
348 | The arc0e and arc0s devices are created automatically when you first | ||
349 | ifconfig the arc0 device. To actually use them, though, you need to also | ||
350 | ifconfig the other virtual devices you need. There are a number of ways you | ||
351 | can set up your network then: | ||
352 | |||
353 | |||
354 | 1. Single Protocol. | ||
355 | |||
356 | This is the simplest way to configure your network: use just one of the | ||
357 | two available protocols. As mentioned above, it's a good idea to use | ||
358 | only arc0 unless you have a good reason (like some other software, ie. | ||
359 | WfWg, that only works with arc0e). | ||
360 | |||
361 | If you need only arc0, then the following commands should get you going: | ||
362 | ifconfig arc0 MY.IP.ADD.RESS | ||
363 | route add MY.IP.ADD.RESS arc0 | ||
364 | route add -net SUB.NET.ADD.RESS arc0 | ||
365 | [add other local routes here] | ||
366 | |||
367 | If you need arc0e (and only arc0e), it's a little different: | ||
368 | ifconfig arc0 MY.IP.ADD.RESS | ||
369 | ifconfig arc0e MY.IP.ADD.RESS | ||
370 | route add MY.IP.ADD.RESS arc0e | ||
371 | route add -net SUB.NET.ADD.RESS arc0e | ||
372 | |||
373 | arc0s works much the same way as arc0e. | ||
374 | |||
375 | |||
376 | 2. More than one protocol on the same wire. | ||
377 | |||
378 | Now things start getting confusing. To even try it, you may need to be | ||
379 | partly crazy. Here's what *I* did. :) Note that I don't include arc0s in | ||
380 | my home network; I don't have any NetBSD or AmiTCP computers, so I only | ||
381 | use arc0s during limited testing. | ||
382 | |||
383 | I have three computers on my home network; two Linux boxes (which prefer | ||
384 | RFC1201 protocol, for reasons listed above), and one XT that can't run | ||
385 | Linux but runs the free Microsoft LANMAN Client instead. | ||
386 | |||
387 | Worse, one of the Linux computers (freedom) also has a modem and acts as | ||
388 | a router to my Internet provider. The other Linux box (insight) also has | ||
389 | its own IP address and needs to use freedom as its default gateway. The | ||
390 | XT (patience), however, does not have its own Internet IP address and so | ||
391 | I assigned it one on a "private subnet" (as defined by RFC1597). | ||
392 | |||
393 | To start with, take a simple network with just insight and freedom. | ||
394 | Insight needs to: | ||
395 | - talk to freedom via RFC1201 (arc0) protocol, because I like it | ||
396 | more and it's faster. | ||
397 | - use freedom as its Internet gateway. | ||
398 | |||
399 | That's pretty easy to do. Set up insight like this: | ||
400 | ifconfig arc0 insight | ||
401 | route add insight arc0 | ||
402 | route add freedom arc0 /* I would use the subnet here (like I said | ||
403 | to to in "single protocol" above), | ||
404 | but the rest of the subnet | ||
405 | unfortunately lies across the PPP | ||
406 | link on freedom, which confuses | ||
407 | things. */ | ||
408 | route add default gw freedom | ||
409 | |||
410 | And freedom gets configured like so: | ||
411 | ifconfig arc0 freedom | ||
412 | route add freedom arc0 | ||
413 | route add insight arc0 | ||
414 | /* and default gateway is configured by pppd */ | ||
415 | |||
416 | Great, now insight talks to freedom directly on arc0, and sends packets | ||
417 | to the Internet through freedom. If you didn't know how to do the above, | ||
418 | you should probably stop reading this section now because it only gets | ||
419 | worse. | ||
420 | |||
421 | Now, how do I add patience into the network? It will be using LANMAN | ||
422 | Client, which means I need the arc0e device. It needs to be able to talk | ||
423 | to both insight and freedom, and also use freedom as a gateway to the | ||
424 | Internet. (Recall that patience has a "private IP address" which won't | ||
425 | work on the Internet; that's okay, I configured Linux IP masquerading on | ||
426 | freedom for this subnet). | ||
427 | |||
428 | So patience (necessarily; I don't have another IP number from my | ||
429 | provider) has an IP address on a different subnet than freedom and | ||
430 | insight, but needs to use freedom as an Internet gateway. Worse, most | ||
431 | DOS networking programs, including LANMAN, have braindead networking | ||
432 | schemes that rely completely on the netmask and a 'default gateway' to | ||
433 | determine how to route packets. This means that to get to freedom or | ||
434 | insight, patience WILL send through its default gateway, regardless of | ||
435 | the fact that both freedom and insight (courtesy of the arc0e device) | ||
436 | could understand a direct transmission. | ||
437 | |||
438 | I compensate by giving freedom an extra IP address - aliased 'gatekeeper' | ||
439 | - that is on my private subnet, the same subnet that patience is on. I | ||
440 | then define gatekeeper to be the default gateway for patience. | ||
441 | |||
442 | To configure freedom (in addition to the commands above): | ||
443 | ifconfig arc0e gatekeeper | ||
444 | route add gatekeeper arc0e | ||
445 | route add patience arc0e | ||
446 | |||
447 | This way, freedom will send all packets for patience through arc0e, | ||
448 | giving its IP address as gatekeeper (on the private subnet). When it | ||
449 | talks to insight or the Internet, it will use its "freedom" Internet IP | ||
450 | address. | ||
451 | |||
452 | You will notice that we haven't configured the arc0e device on insight. | ||
453 | This would work, but is not really necessary, and would require me to | ||
454 | assign insight another special IP number from my private subnet. Since | ||
455 | both insight and patience are using freedom as their default gateway, the | ||
456 | two can already talk to each other. | ||
457 | |||
458 | It's quite fortunate that I set things up like this the first time (cough | ||
459 | cough) because it's really handy when I boot insight into DOS. There, it | ||
460 | runs the Novell ODI protocol stack, which only works with RFC1201 ARCnet. | ||
461 | In this mode it would be impossible for insight to communicate directly | ||
462 | with patience, since the Novell stack is incompatible with Microsoft's | ||
463 | Ethernet-Encap. Without changing any settings on freedom or patience, I | ||
464 | simply set freedom as the default gateway for insight (now in DOS, | ||
465 | remember) and all the forwarding happens "automagically" between the two | ||
466 | hosts that would normally not be able to communicate at all. | ||
467 | |||
468 | For those who like diagrams, I have created two "virtual subnets" on the | ||
469 | same physical ARCnet wire. You can picture it like this: | ||
470 | |||
471 | |||
472 | [RFC1201 NETWORK] [ETHER-ENCAP NETWORK] | ||
473 | (registered Internet subnet) (RFC1597 private subnet) | ||
474 | |||
475 | (IP Masquerade) | ||
476 | /---------------\ * /---------------\ | ||
477 | | | * | | | ||
478 | | +-Freedom-*-Gatekeeper-+ | | ||
479 | | | | * | | | ||
480 | \-------+-------/ | * \-------+-------/ | ||
481 | | | | | ||
482 | Insight | Patience | ||
483 | (Internet) | ||
484 | |||
485 | |||
486 | |||
487 | It works: what now? | ||
488 | ------------------- | ||
489 | |||
490 | Send mail describing your setup, preferably including driver version, kernel | ||
491 | version, ARCnet card model, CPU type, number of systems on your network, and | ||
492 | list of software in use to me at the following address: | ||
493 | apenwarr@worldvisions.ca | ||
494 | |||
495 | I do send (sometimes automated) replies to all messages I receive. My email | ||
496 | can be weird (and also usually gets forwarded all over the place along the | ||
497 | way to me), so if you don't get a reply within a reasonable time, please | ||
498 | resend. | ||
499 | |||
500 | |||
501 | It doesn't work: what now? | ||
502 | -------------------------- | ||
503 | |||
504 | Do the same as above, but also include the output of the ifconfig and route | ||
505 | commands, as well as any pertinent log entries (ie. anything that starts | ||
506 | with "arcnet:" and has shown up since the last reboot) in your mail. | ||
507 | |||
508 | If you want to try fixing it yourself (I strongly recommend that you mail me | ||
509 | about the problem first, since it might already have been solved) you may | ||
510 | want to try some of the debug levels available. For heavy testing on | ||
511 | D_DURING or more, it would be a REALLY good idea to kill your klogd daemon | ||
512 | first! D_DURING displays 4-5 lines for each packet sent or received. D_TX, | ||
513 | D_RX, and D_SKB actually DISPLAY each packet as it is sent or received, | ||
514 | which is obviously quite big. | ||
515 | |||
516 | Starting with v2.40 ALPHA, the autoprobe routines have changed | ||
517 | significantly. In particular, they won't tell you why the card was not | ||
518 | found unless you turn on the D_INIT_REASONS debugging flag. | ||
519 | |||
520 | Once the driver is running, you can run the arcdump shell script (available | ||
521 | from me or in the full ARCnet package, if you have it) as root to list the | ||
522 | contents of the arcnet buffers at any time. To make any sense at all out of | ||
523 | this, you should grab the pertinent RFCs. (some are listed near the top of | ||
524 | arcnet.c). arcdump assumes your card is at 0xD0000. If it isn't, edit the | ||
525 | script. | ||
526 | |||
527 | Buffers 0 and 1 are used for receiving, and Buffers 2 and 3 are for sending. | ||
528 | Ping-pong buffers are implemented both ways. | ||
529 | |||
530 | If your debug level includes D_DURING and you did NOT define SLOW_XMIT_COPY, | ||
531 | the buffers are cleared to a constant value of 0x42 every time the card is | ||
532 | reset (which should only happen when you do an ifconfig up, or when Linux | ||
533 | decides that the driver is broken). During a transmit, unused parts of the | ||
534 | buffer will be cleared to 0x42 as well. This is to make it easier to figure | ||
535 | out which bytes are being used by a packet. | ||
536 | |||
537 | You can change the debug level without recompiling the kernel by typing: | ||
538 | ifconfig arc0 down metric 1xxx | ||
539 | /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 | ||
540 | where "xxx" is the debug level you want. For example, "metric 1015" would put | ||
541 | you at debug level 15. Debug level 7 is currently the default. | ||
542 | |||
543 | Note that the debug level is (starting with v1.90 ALPHA) a binary | ||
544 | combination of different debug flags; so debug level 7 is really 1+2+4 or | ||
545 | D_NORMAL+D_EXTRA+D_INIT. To include D_DURING, you would add 16 to this, | ||
546 | resulting in debug level 23. | ||
547 | |||
548 | If you don't understand that, you probably don't want to know anyway. | ||
549 | E-mail me about your problem. | ||
550 | |||
551 | |||
552 | I want to send money: what now? | ||
553 | ------------------------------- | ||
554 | |||
555 | Go take a nap or something. You'll feel better in the morning. | ||