MII transmitter not found

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Yongling Ding wrote:

> It's not working with MII or 10Base-T. I have to force it to 100Base-T even
> the link is actually 10Base-T. DHCP is not working yet, so I have to set IP
> address statically. It seems that the card gets confused with the commands
> sent by the driver. Without options=4, the interface will be working after
> around 3 minutes if I set the IP manually. It's pretty stable so far with
> almost 500M downloading.

This problem occurred with some 3c905B cards when used with v0.99E.
The correct solution is to use v0.99H or v0.99H-WOL.

If you are already using v0.99H, then there is some problem that I don't
understand.  (Oh, in general you should *not* use media-forcing options
unless you must use 10base2 or AUI transceivers.  Specifically, "10baseT"
or "100baseTx" isn't a valid media selection for cards with MII
transceivers.  The MII transceiver handles 10 and 100baseTx automagically. )

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