smc ezcard 10/100 boards, rtl8139 and diag

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 25 Dec 1998, Marty Leisner wrote:

> >> I understand the SMC EZcard 10/100 uses the chip with this driver
> >> (the ethernet address it reports is right, it isn't working (yet) and
> >> the other information seems to be wrong...
...
> Here's the output of mii:
> mii-diag.c:v1.04 12/17/98  Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
>  MII PHY #32 transceiver registers:
>    1000 7809 0000 0000 05e1 0000 0000 0000
>    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
>  Basic mode control register 0x1000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
>  Basic mode status register 0x7809 ... 7809.
>    Link status: not established.

You don't have link beat -- check your cables.


>    This transceiver is capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
>    Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
>  Your link partner is strange, status 0000.

This is the new output format when you don't link in libmii.
I should omit the final message line when you don't have a link partner.

>     Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 16).
>       Vendor id=1113. Device id=1211.
>       Medium devsel.  IRQ 255.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.

Change your BIOS setup so that a valid IRQ is assigned.  (Both '0' and '255'
mean that no IRQ has been assigned.)

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