[tulip] W-LINX LinxPRO Ethernet

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Michael Thaler wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 01:03:35PM -0500, Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> > What is the detection message, including the driver version?
...
> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker@scyld.com (modified by danilo@cs.uni-magdeburg.de for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford)
> eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 17 at 0x800, EEPROM not present, 00:4C:69:6E:75:79, IRQ 9.

Hmmm, the driver was not able to read the EEPROM.

> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7849 advertising 01e1.
> eth0: 21143 10mbps sensed media.
> eth0: 21143 10baseT link beat good.

Hmmm, my driver releases should only use the MII transceiver if one is
found.  I suspect one of the modifications changed the behavior, in this
case breaking the driver.  Keep in mind, though, that the primary problem
is reading the EEPROM, not the fall-back media selection.

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