Bug report, as much information as I can give...

Winged Wolf winged@spastic.org
Mon Dec 27 16:00:08 1999


ARGH.

Using the default interface 'eth0'.
Basic registers of MII PHY #24:  3000 786d 0000 0000 01e1 0020 0004 2001.
 Basic mode control register 0x30000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
 Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat  (no autonegotiation).

@whee.

So should I drop the new driver into the kernel tree, and recompile and
hope it works?

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On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Donald Becker wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Winged Wolf wrote:
> 
> > > > eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x1080, 00:50:da:1c:9d:7d, IRQ 10
> > > >   Internal Config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa.
> > > >   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
> > > >   Media override to transceiver type 0 (10baseT).
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> > I tried to do it without any options, and it failed with exactly the same
> > error.  I tried using options=8, because your page
> > (cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html) says that 8 is: "3c905B
> > internal transceiver (the correct transceiver type on the Cyclone)".
> > (Documentation error?)
> 
> No, it's because of the year-old driver in the kernel.  The older driver
> only accepts transceiver types 0..7
> 
> > I'm downloading mii-diag right now; also, I'm going to download the 0.99L
> > version of the driver from your website and drop that in if mii-diag
> > doesn't do much good.
> 
> Donald Becker
> Scyld Computing Corporation, and
> USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
>