[realtek] Receiver / sender disabled?

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Okke Timm wrote:

> I have a problem with a Realtek RTL8139C Card:
> 
> First a little history about this card: I worked for about half a year 
> without any mayor problems, but around New Years Eve it started to have 
> dropouts and a few hours later it completly refused to work. Sidenote: I 
> don't have directly access to the computer, so I can only tell you what I 
> see through a ssh session.
.
> kernel: eth0: MII #32 registers are: 9000 7809 0000 0000 01e1 0000 0000 
> 0000.
..
> Any Ideas? Is the network card broken? Or the cable? Or the switch port?

You don't have link beat, and it appears that something has just reset
the transceiver.  Normally I would say you have a cable or switch
problem, but you might have a either new software that is explicitly
resetting the transceiver or a power supply problem.

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