SVEC FD1002-TX

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Kenji Yasaka wrote:

> I've bought SVEC's FD1002-TX
> (http://www.svec.com.tw/Products/fd1002.htm) which has 21143-PD and
> Davicom DM9101F on the board, but I wasn't able to use it on
> Linux(2.2.1) with tulip driver version 0.90q. I've tried statically
> selecting the media by modifying tulip.c but it didn't work. Can
> anybody help me with this?

> tulip-diag.c:v1.08 2/28/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
...
> EEPROM contents:
>   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000

Hmmm, empty EEPROM.
What does the driver detection message say?

>  MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x782d.
>  MII PHY #8 transceiver registers:
>    1000 782d 0181 b802 0021 0021 0000 0000

You are only advertising 10baseT-half-duplex -- did you force the
transceiver to MII-10baseT?
You shouldn't need to set the transceiver type.
(You do have link beat.)

>    Link status: established.
>  I'm advertising 0021: 10baseT
>  Link partner capability is 0021: 10baseT.

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