V3.8/Kernel 2.6 & DLINK DE-503/DEC Tulip Based NIC Cards

I have two machines, one older and my linux machine, and a new one both have DLink DE503+ DEC Tulip based NIC cards.

Both exhibt the SAME BEHAVIOR when booting V3.8 CeBit the HARD LOCKUP if I allow DHCP or use netcardconfig.

I have tried NO APM, PCMCIA, APIC=off etc. with no sucess the ONLY WAY to boot to an working enviroment, sans network, is NODHCP.

lspci, dmesg, and miitool info follows:

These work GREAT in V3.7 under 2.4.x Kernel, I was hoping I could upgrade to the latest and greatest even on my ancient K6 with the 2.6.x Kernel but thats not looking promosing.

Any one have any suggestions.

Code:

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x]$ lspci -v
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C595/97 [Apollo VP2/97] (rev 03)
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32

0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/A/B PCI-to-ISA [ApolloVP] (rev 27)
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0

0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at 6000 [size=16]

0000:00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems TGUI 9660/938x/968x (rev d3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at e0800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Memory at e0400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]

0000:00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-724 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: Yamaha Corporation YMF724-Based PCI Audio Adapter
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at e0810000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
        Capabilities: <available only to root>

0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21)
        Subsystem: D-Link System Inc DE-530+
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at 6200 [size=128]
        Memory at e0818000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]

knoppix@1[knoppix]$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
snd_mixer_oss          18688  0
snd                    46308  1 snd_mixer_oss
via_agp                11264  0
sworks_agp            10912  0
sis_agp                9988  0
nvidia_agp              9756  0
intel_mch_agp          11792  0
intel_agp              22044  0
efficeon_agp          10144  0
ati_agp                10380  0
amd64_agp              13640  0
amd_k7_agp              9740  0
ali_agp                9216  0
agpgart                30512  11 via_agp,sworks_agp,sis_agp,nvidia_agp,intel_mch_agp,intel_agp,efficeon_agp,ati_agp,amd64_agp,amd_k7_agp,ali_agp
autofs4                18820  1
nls_iso8859_1          7936  0
nls_cp437              9600  0
ymfpci                51212  1
ac97_codec            20108  1 ymfpci
uart401                13124  1 ymfpci
sound                  71812  1 uart401
soundcore              11104  4 snd,ymfpci,sound
de4x5                  47648  0
parport_pc            38596  0
parport                33480  1 parport_pc
8250                  41308  0
serial_core            21120  1 8250
usbhid                42176  0
uhci_hcd              31376  0
pcmcia                21776  0
yenta_socket          21896  0
rsrc_nonstatic        12160  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            42272  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
apm                    22252  2
rtc                    13772  0
unionfs              816404  1
cloop                  18848  1
sbp2                  24456  0
ohci1394              33028  0
ieee1394              300600  2 sbp2,ohci1394
usb_storage            63296  0
ub                    18332  0
ohci_hcd              21896  0
ehci_hcd              31752  0
usbcore              101496  7 usbhid,uhci_hcd,usb_storage,ub,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
knoppix@1[knoppix]$ mii-tool
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not permitted
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Operation not permitted
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth2' failed: Operation not permitted
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth3' failed: Operation not permitted
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth4' failed: Operation not permitted
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth5' failed: Operation not permitted
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth6' failed: Operation not permitted
SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth7' failed: Operation not permitted
no MII interfaces found
knoppix@1[knoppix]$ dmesg
Linux version 2.6.11 (root@Knoppix) (gcc-Version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8)) #6 SMP Wed Feb 23 09:15:46 CET 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000a000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
160MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 40960
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 36864 pages, LIFO batch:9
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.0 present.
ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=de apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux lang=us screen=800x600 vsync=60 nodhcp nodma
__iounmap: bad address c00fffd9
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01242000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Detected 337.487 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 156380k/163840k available (1829k kernel code, 6916k reserved, 924k data, 296k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 661.50 BogoMIPS (lpj=330752)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000000 0000000000000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 160 Mb
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K (32 bytes/line), D cache 32K (32 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 008021bf 808029bf 00000000 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
CPU0: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 182.79 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
Brought up 1 CPUs
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 00000001
  groups: 00000001
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 1046k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfaf80, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fbb50
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xbb78, dseg 0xf0000
PnPBIOS: 14 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 14 recorded by driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Via IRQ fixup
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1111253036.036:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
i8042: ACPI detection disabled
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586a (rev 27) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6000-0x6007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6008-0x600f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC AC38400L, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 32X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: WDC AC34000L, ATA DISK drive
hdd: CRW6206A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdc: max request size: 128KiB
hdc: 7814016 sectors (4000 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=7752/16/63
hdc: cache flushes not supported
 hdc: hdc1 hdc2
hdb: ATAPI 27X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 384kB Cache
libata version 1.10 loaded.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 6
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP established hash table entries: 8192 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 98304 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 8192)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
seagate: ST0x/TMC-8xx not detected.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ub: sizeof ub_scsi_cmd 64 ub_dev 2504
usbcore: registered new driver ub
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <[email protected]>
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda.
FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda.
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.02
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 29809 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65562 bytes.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Registering unionfs version $Id: main.c,v 1.82 2005/02/08 15:17:38 cwright Exp $
Freeing unused kernel memory: 296k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
Linux Kernel Card Services
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 14 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA]
0000:00:0b.0: DC21041 at 0x6200, h/w address 00:40:05:50:47:d8,
      and requires IRQ10 (provided by PCI BIOS).
de4x5.c:V0.546 2001/02/22 [email protected]
PCI: 0000:00:0a.0 has unsupported PM cap regs version (1)
ymfpci: YMF724 at 0xe0810000 IRQ 11
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: AKM1 (Asahi Kasei AK4542)
Adding 249944k swap on /dev/hdc1.  Priority:-1 extents:1
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
knoppix@1[knoppix]$

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