NIC in Sony Vaio docking station

[Martin Bene]

At 11:02 04.04.99 -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
>>  tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov 
>
>You'll likely want a newer driver version, especially if it's a 21143-TD.

did that, see previous post to linux-tulip. And it is a 21143-TD (just
confirmed using a screwdriver) :-)

>>  eth0: Digital DS21142/3 Tulip at 0xec00, 08 00 46 01 ad 7f, IRQ 255. 
>
>Your interface hasn't been assigned an IRQ (IRQ0 or IRQ255 means unassigned).
>Change the BIOS setup so that has an IRQ in the range 1-16.

Yep, solved by setting "Plug&Play OS" in setup to "NO". Now it gets
assigned IRQ 9.

>>  eth0:  Index #3 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block. 
>>  eth0: ***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found! 
>
>The VAIO has an EEPROM media table that doesn't match the available
>transceiver types.

In other words: sony blew this one. pity, otherwise it's a really nice system.

This one's still there of course - Current state is that insmod and
ifconfig both work, but the link led on the card doesn't light and no data
gets sent or recieved.

Trying to specify a transceiver using option= on module load also didn't
get me anywhere.

Any chance of getting the necessary info for initialisation from the
working windows driver?

Thanks, Martin
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