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

Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mon Dec 27 16:06:42 1999


On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Winged Wolf wrote:

> 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).

That looks normal.

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

v0.99H should be sufficient for all editions of 3c905B.  Since the 'B'
has been replaced by the 'C' Tornado version, this should remain true.

> > > 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.

But it won't hurt to update.
  http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/modules.html


Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov