Accton en1102, more info

Alan Jones billiejoe@home.net
Mon Feb 1 17:34:57 1999


nope, its not a MII trancever i dont think, tulip-diag and tulip driver id's it
as a non-MII card, but if their is anotehr way to check, id look...

Donald Becker wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Alan Jones wrote:
>
> > Ok, i compiled the tulip driver as a module and using the info from
> > Gerhard Wiesinger, forced it into 10baseT mode, now it is constantly
> > spewinf error messages to my terminal reading:
> > eth0: 21140 transmit timed out, status FC260400, SIA ffffff0b ffffffff
> > 1c09fdc0 fffffec8
> ...
> > ifconfig shows a climbing # of errors, 1 for each message, that dosent
> > seem to stop, but with it as a module it sends some TX packets.. still
> > no RX packets...
>
> Does this board use a MII transceiver (which handles both 10 and 100mbps),
> or a SYM mode transceiver (which uses the on-board 10baseT encoder for
> 10mbps)?
>
> If it's an MII transceiver you must use MII mode, perhaps as media type #9,
> "MII 10baseT".  Nothing is attached to the on-board encoder, and the
> transmitter will time out waiting for link beat.
>
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