[eepro100] [eepro100]sporadic hangups

[Brian Tilma]

Hi All,

I'm experiencing sporadic lockups, which I've concluded are due to the 
problems covered here regarding the eepro100 chip/driver.  I was using the 
driver RedHat distributes(v1.09 w/rev.1.36 by Andrey Savochkin), and I was 
unaware of the sleep mode setting in the EEPROM.  I've changed those two 
things, and that seems to have had a positive effect, but I was wondering one 
more thing.  Below I've included the output of "mii-diag -v -D eth0", and I 
was wondering if I needed to do anything regarding the connection speed.  I 
noticed that at the end, autonegotiation had not completed, but that a link 
of some description was established.  The communication does seem to be 
happening well enough, but I'd like to avoid potential problems.  Do I need 
to force a 10BaseT connection, or is the driver handling this just fine by 
itself?  Thanks in advance.

Brian Tilma

here's the output...

mii-diag.c:v2.05 7/13/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
  Using the new SIOCGMIIPHY value on PHY 1 (BMCR 0x3100).
 Basic mode control register 0x3100: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
   This transceiver is capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
 Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat  (no autonegotiation).
   End of basic transceiver information.

 MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
   3100 782d 02a8 0330 05e1 0021 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   2404 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0010 0000 0000 0000.
 Basic mode control register 0x3100: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x782d ... 782d.
   Link status: established.
   Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
 Vendor ID is 00:aa:00:--:--:--, model 51 rev. 0.
   No specific information is known about this transceiver type.
 I'm advertising 05e1: Flow-control 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT
   Advertising no additional info pages.
   IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD protocol.
 Link partner capability is 0021: 10baseT.
   Negotiation did not complete.