[tulip] tulip drvier error

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Fri, 3 Aug 2001 18:58:16 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, leeyang wrote:

> I am still trying tulip driver(0.92w) for 88140,
> when I insmod tulip.o(have insmod pci-scan.o)
> it pop up 
> "eth1: ASIX AX88140 rev 3 at 0xc180c000, 00:20:A8:FF:FF:37, IRQ 15.

Hmm, that's a suspicious station address.

> eth1:  EEPROM default media type MII 100baseTx.

This will force the transceiver to fixed speed.  That might not be what
you want.

> eth1:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
> eth1:  MII transceiver #0 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1."

Two suggestions
   Turn on autonegotation with
      mii-diag -A 0x01e1
   Send us the output of tulip-diag -ee

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