Hades and NE2000 PCI

[artik-wroc]

I'm trying to run a RealTek RTL-8029 card. I have two different ones, both work on PC.
The Assemsoft driver loads correctly, but the card does not work.
Wireshark only shows the ARP packet coming from the card, asking for a router. That's all that goes in and out of the card.
inet4.xdd from the Assemsoft website does not work with the current FreeMiNT.
What else needs to be done to make Hades work with a PCI network card.

The ISA NE2000 card works fine under STInG, MiNT and Magic.

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Loading interfaces:
AssemSoft's NE2000 PCI driver v0.0.18 (68020+),
install ISR 0x00141228 for card 0
p Card 0q is a "RealTek RTL-8029" at interface "ne0"
        hwadr: 00:ee:dd:aa:3f:75
        hwpriv: 0x00000000, netif: 0x000d0004, ISR: 0x00141111
        got 52 Rx pages, maxpackets = 0
ISR hwpriv table: 0x000da9a4, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000
ISR routines:     0x00141228, 0x00141234, 0x00141240, 0x0014124c
IP  masquerading by Mario Becroft, 1999.
FTP masquerading support by Torsten Lang, 1999.

[lp]

Possibly related to PCIMAIN chip. Mine had working Ethernet on PCI with PCIMAIN rev 14.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

I had to update my PCMAIN chip before the network card would work. It was set up properly, but without the chip updated, it just wouldn't work no matter what. As soon as the new chip was in, it worked immediately.

[mikro]

In any case, feel free to use inet4.xdd from the current kernel. There isn't any hardware-depend code at all and I'm pretty sure that whatever Ozk had fixed there made it to the mainline kernel as well.

[artik-wroc]

I updated the PCIMAIN chip, but unfortunately both RTL8029 cards still don't work
I'll try the DEC card on TUW drivers to see if it's PCI in Hades whatever works.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

I seem to remember the ethernet card had to be in the 3rd slot with the graphics and sound card in slots 1 and 2.

[artik-wroc]

I sincerely doubt that it matters, especially since various information can be found.

Nevertheless, I will try.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Yes, can't hurt to try. I think it had to do with my graphics card having 4MB instead of 2MB. I couldn't see why it would matter either myself, but whatever works . Hades is a strange beast.

Here is my pcidump information if that could help.

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AssemSoft PCI bus dumper                                                        
                                                                                
 ============================================================                   
 -------------------- Card with index 0 ---------------------                   
 ------------------------------------------------------------                   
PCI resource 1...                                                               
Start       0x01000000 - %00000001.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 16777216        
Length      0x01000000 - %00000001.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 16777216        
Offset      0x80000000 - %10000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 2147483648      
DMA Offset  0x80000000 - %10000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 2147483648      
Flags       0x8702 - %10000111.00000010 - 34562                                 
                                                                                
Vendor ID   0x1002                                                              
Device ID   0x4758                                                              
Command     0x0083 - %00000000.10000011 - 131                                   
Status      0x0200 - %00000010.00000000 - 512                                   
Class code  0x03000003 - %00000011.00000000.00000000.00000011 - 50331651        
Cache Line  0                                                                   
Latency     0                                                                   
Header type 0                                                                   
BIST        0                                                                   
IO 1        0x01000000                                                          
IO 2        0x00000000                                                          
IO 3        0x00000000                                                          
IO 4        0x00000000                                                          
IO 5        0x00000000                                                          
IO 6        0x00000000                                                          
I. Line     0x00FF                                                              
SS Vendor   0x0000                                                              
SS ID       0x0000                                                              
I. Pin      0                                                                   
Min GNT     0                                                                   
Max Latency 0                                                                   
                                                                                
 ============================================================                   
 -------------------- Card with index 1 ---------------------                   
 ------------------------------------------------------------                   
PCI resource 1...                                                               
Start       0x00001000 - %00000000.00000000.00010000.00000000 - 4096            
Length      0x00000040 - %00000000.00000000.00000000.01000000 - 64              
Offset      0xB0000000 - %10110000.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 2952790016      
DMA Offset  0x80000000 - %10000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 2147483648      
Flags       0xC702 - %11000111.00000010 - 50946                                 
                                                                                
Vendor ID   0x1274                                                              
Device ID   0x1371                                                              
Command     0x0005 - %00000000.00000101 - 5                                     
Status      0x0410 - %00000100.00010000 - 1040                                  
Class code  0x04010002 - %00000100.00000001.00000000.00000010 - 67174402        
Cache Line  0                                                                   
Latency     32                                                                  
Header type 0                                                                   
BIST        0                                                                   
IO 1        0x00001001                                                          
IO 2        0x00000000                                                          
IO 3        0x00000000                                                          
IO 4        0x00000000                                                          
IO 5        0x00000000                                                          
IO 6        0x00000000                                                          
I. Line     0x00FF                                                              
SS Vendor   0x1274                                                              
SS ID       0x1371                                                              
I. Pin      1                                                                   
Min GNT     12                                                                  
Max Latency 128                                                                 
                                                                                
 ============================================================                   
 -------------------- Card with index 2 ---------------------                   
 ------------------------------------------------------------                   
PCI resource 1...                                                               
Start       0x00001040 - %00000000.00000000.00010000.01000000 - 4160            
Length      0x00000020 - %00000000.00000000.00000000.00100000 - 32              
Offset      0xB0000000 - %10110000.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 2952790016      
DMA Offset  0x80000000 - %10000000.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 2147483648      
Flags       0xC702 - %11000111.00000010 - 50946                                 
                                                                                
Vendor ID   0x10EC                                                              
Device ID   0x8029                                                              
Command     0x0001 - %00000000.00000001 - 1                                     
Status      0x0200 - %00000010.00000000 - 512                                   
Class code  0x02000000 - %00000010.00000000.00000000.00000000 - 33554432        
Cache Line  0                                                                   
Latency     0                                                                   
Header type 0                                                                   
BIST        0                                                                   
IO 1        0x00001041                                                          
IO 2        0x00000000                                                          
IO 3        0x00000000                                                          
IO 4        0x00000000                                                          
IO 5        0x00000000                                                          
IO 6        0x00000000                                                          
I. Line     0x00FF                                                              
SS Vendor   0x10EC                                                              
SS ID       0x8029                                                              
I. Pin      1                                                                   
Min GNT     0                                                                   
Max Latency 0                                                                   
Quitting                                                                        
                                                                                
                                                                                
Program terminated  

[artik-wroc]

(pcidump) How to redirect output to a file?

[artik-wroc]

The DEC driver finds the card, but for now it looks for something and finds nothing. I'll keep trying.
There is information about the required SERROM version in the documentation:
And for the full (absolutely necessary !) support of the DMA-ability of the PCI-Bus the following revisions of integrated circuits must be found on the HADES-motherboard:
PCIMAIN version >= 5
SERROM version >= 10A"

[lp]

I sincerely doubt that it matters, especially since various information can be found.

Nevertheless, I will try.

A page from my hypertext about the Hades. The order of the cards was suggested to me by ozk the guy (AssemSoft) that wrote the driver. Never had ethernet problems. My serrom chip is revision 11 as noted in the hyp. On my board(s), it's not soldered.

[artik-wroc]

Would you be able to read the contents of this chip? I have version 6.

[lp]

Would you be able to read the contents of this chip? I have version 6.

I have no equipment to do that. The machine isn't completely dead, so it's a touchy situation. Not sure what's in the other board (DOA) as I'm in the process of trying to locate it as all my stuff was in storage for several years and it wasn't until just this week I finally fetched the remainder of it from my dad's place.

EDIT: A few hours later. Found the other board and it has serrom 7. Had this machine not been killed in shipping it would of had ethernet issues.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

I sincerely doubt that it matters, especially since various information can be found.

Nevertheless, I will try.

A page from my hypertext about the Hades. The order of the cards was suggested to me by ozk the guy (AssemSoft) that wrote the driver. Never had ethernet problems. My serrom chip is revision 11 as noted in the hyp. On my board(s), it's not soldered.

Yes, that would be great if it could be dumped. It might help with the sound card issue everyone seems to have also.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Would you be able to read the contents of this chip? I have version 6.

I have no equipment to do that. The machine isn't completely dead, so it's a touchy situation. Not sure what's in the other board (DOA) as I'm in the process of trying to locate it as all my stuff was in storage for several years and it wasn't until just this week I finally fetched the remainder of it from my dad's place.

EDIT: A few hours later. Found the other board and it has serrom 7. Had this machine not been killed in shipping it would of had ethernet issues.

Btw, I have the hardware to dump the chip. I'm only 1 state over if you're still in OH so just a day or so in the mail and I could dump the chip and send it right back.

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[lp]

Btw, I have the hardware to dump the chip. I'm only 1 state over if you're still in OH so just a day or so in the mail and I could dump the chip and send it right back.

I'm a bit reluctant since the machine is in a repairable state. The rather cramped case will require tearing it down. Let me mull it over for a bit.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Might not be too bad after all. I opened my Hades up and yes, there are some cables that might need to be moved, but doesn't look like a tear-down would be required to extract the one chip. Good thing is that it is socketed .

hades_pcb.png

[artik-wroc]

Unfortunately, even updating the SERROM to version 11 did not make the PCI network cards work. The drivers install, but no packages go out.
The DEC driver doesn't hang on startup, but it doesn't work anyway (card tries to "talk" something, but it's all bogus IP to Wireshark, even the card's MAC address is truncated and inverted. So PCI is definitely not working properly.).
The sound card now reports even more errors. So the update didn't help with my Hades motherboard.

[artik-wroc]

The card was able to start, the TOS version update helped

[artik-wroc]

I tried to run the card with the RTL8139D chip.
The driver recognized the type C. This and the incorrect MAC address most likely indicate that it does not support version D. I will order a C or B and check.