[vortex] 3Com 3c905-t4 NIC

[Charles E. Patterson]

Hello,

I am a novice at Linux and am currently running Knoppix (1/1/2003 level).

I cannot get Linux to turn on the green light on the NIC.  I compiled the
vortex-diag.c module per the note at the end of the module 'vortex-diag.c'.
It compiles with a note that mulit lines are deprecated.

Currently under Windows 98 SE it runs at 10mb/sec because I am not attached
to a T4 hub (still satisfactory performance).  My configuration is NIC > SMC
router > Motorola SB4100 cable modem.  ISP is optonline.net .

When I try to do the insmod I get the message:
ELF file /mnt/hde8/src/vortex-diag not a relocatable file.

I just put the executable in the same directory as source to keep things
simple for me.

I assume the 'O' options are -o and -O in the compile command and not
zero's.

Can someone give me a clue as to what needs to be done to get the NIC to
activate.

Thanks,
Charles Patterson

mii-diag.c:v2.07 11/15/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
  Using the new SIOCGMIIPHY value on PHY 1 (BMCR 0x1000).
 Basic mode control register 0x1000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x9801 ... 9801.
   Link status: not established.
   This transceiver is capable of  100baseT4 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Unable to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
   End of basic transceiver information.

 MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
   1000 9801 03e0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0102 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

Output of IFCONFIG command:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4B:D6:8F:FE
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:12
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:4104 (4.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xac00