Hi all ,

I have a strange problem with my MK2 (Fiirmware v2.01-final) ethernet port. I tried to upload new music with emplode to the unit when I noticed that I was unable to connect to the player through the LAN anymore. It used to work without any problems for years. The rio car has a statically assigned ip address (192.168.0.13/24).
When I ping the player from my PC I get this :

....
Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Request timed out.
Reply from 192.168.0.13: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
.....

This goes on and on. I already replaced Lan cables and tried to directly link to the PC with a crossed Lan cable, but I still get this time outs. I also connected the rio car to the Lan port of my notebook, but still the same results. The same when I changed the IP address of the player, no help. Also it's not a Firewall issue or anything like that.
It must be something on the ethernet port of the MK2.

Is there anything I can do to fix this or to analyze this further ?

Tnx
Roland

It's possible that there's a hardware issue with the player. Get a serial port log and see if it gives you any errors.

Thanks for the fast reply. Here is the log:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.2.14-rmk5-np17-empeg55 (peter@tatu) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) #20 Tue Jul 6 15:36:06 BST 2004
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
Checking for extra DRAM:
c0c00000: wrote ffffffff, read 9afffff0
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 7, serial number 90000671)
Command line: mem=12m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 10968k/12M available (964k code, 20k reserved, 332k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Linux-IrDA: IrCOMM protocol ( revision:Tue May 18 03:11:39 1999 )
ircomm_tty: virtual tty driver for IrCOMM ( revision:Wed May 26 00:49:11 1999 )
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is ffffffff 'ÿÿÿÿ'
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0004600).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hdb: IC25N030ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IC25N030ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DARA-212000, 11513MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=23392/16/63
hdb: IC25N030ATCS04-0, 28615MB w/1768kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman ([email protected])
SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:12:02:9f
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: [PTBL] [3648/255/63] hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
EXT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running e2fsck is recommended
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...•Ô•j½Õ¹Ñ•‘�ɽ½Ñ�¡•áÑÉ�™¥±•ÍåÍÑ•µ¥�É•…‘½¹±å¹)5ÿchange_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
player.cpp : 385:empeg-car 2.01 2004/07/06.
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1434 Jul 5 2004
Vcb: 0x4054d000
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Abnormal player termination
Player received SIGINT, user interruption
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.


And here is the output of the diagnostic test:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.00 20000601 ([email protected])
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...
0000 empeg-car board test version 0.04 <[email protected]>
0100 ram test starting
0110 testing ic 1 (0-3mb, low word)
0120 testing ic 2 (0-3mb, high word)
0130 testing ic 3 (4-7mb, low word)
0140 testing ic 4 (4-7mb, high word)
0150 testing ic 19 (8-11mb, low word)
0160 testing ic 32 (8-11mb, high word)
01f0 ram test done
0200 ide detect
0210 command issued
0220 drive id IBM-DARA-212000
02f0 ide ok
0300 dsp/i2c test
03f0 dsp/i2c ok
0400 temperature detect
0410 temperature is 00
04f0 temperature ok
0500 usb detect
0510 usb rev 1012
05f0 usb ok
0600 ethernet detect
0610 ethernet rev 334b
06f0 ethernet ok
0700 cs4231 detect
0710 cs4231 rev a0
07f0 cs4231 ok
00f0 tests complete

To me this looks ok so far.

Hm. Don't see anything particularly wrong there at first glance. HOWEVER... You're running 2.01 rather than 2.0. 2.01 is only useful if you've got extra RAM installed. If you don't have extra RAM, try reinstalling 2.0 final and see if that fixes the problem. Dunno whether I should expect it to fix the problem or not (doubt it), but it's worth a try.

Also, did you check the pins on the ethernet port on the player to make sure they hadn't gotten bent or got peanut butter on them?

Peanut butter???

Remember that the empeg only supports 10/Half Duplex. You might want to see if a hub or switch (or your NIC when directly cross-connected) is set to 100/Full or autonegotiate. A thought.

Visually inspect the RJ-45 socket on the back of the empeg, looking for bad/dirty contacts.

Ok I downgraded to 2.0, same problem. I usually use icecream instead of peanut butter ;-) I'll check for the pins and the RJ-45 Socket now. My Switch is a dualspeed one supporting 10/100 HDX/FDX. Like I said it worked with the same setup for years. But anyway Im going to try with a crossed cable and manually set XP to 10HDX.

tnx so far!

Yeah, since you said the same layout worked fine for years, assuming you haven't changed the switch, then that's not likely to be the issue.

You've ruled out the **CABLE** by switching to another known-good cable, right?

And you've ruled out the computer by doing similar ping tests to other devices on the network?

Correct, and I have found the problem... It was a bad port on my switch :-( The switch has been just trashed with a sledgehammer :-) Sorry guys for the hassle !
All working fine now.

Thanks for your kind support.
rgds
Roland

Hmm but really strange it did not work with a crosslink LAN cable. Does XP need a reboot after setting it to 10HDX ? I did not reboot it :-(

It should not require a reboot to set the speed / duplex. Strange. Was your XP box on the right network space / IP?

Yes it's all within 192.168.0.0/24.

Yes absolutely. Seems really weired to me. I could reproduce the problem reliably when I put the LAN cable into the bad switch port.