MX 98715 AEC

[IronCode]

> That's a pretty strange EEPROM table.
> What does tulip-diag -ee report?

tulip-diag -ee gives:

# ./tulip-diag -ee
tulip-diag.c:v1.19 10/2/99 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Index #1: Found a Macronix 98715 PMAC adapter at 0x6800.
 Port selection is 10mpbs-serial 100baseTx scrambler, full-duplex.
 Transmit stopped, Receive stopped, full-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Stopped'.
  The Tx process state is 'Stopped'.
  The transmit threshold is 72.
EEPROM size is 6.
PCI Subsystem IDs, vendor 0003, device 0000.
CardBus Information Structure at offset 00000000.
Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:80:AD:7A:5D:A7.
EEPROM transceiver/media description for the Macronix 98715 PMAC chip.
Leaf node at offset 128, default media type 0000 (10baseT).
 0 transceiver description blocks:
EEPROM contents:
  0003 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 8000 7aad a75d 8000 7aad 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 a75d 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0014 0000 0000 0000 0000 ffff ffff cb7e
 ID block CRC 0xe5 (vs. 00).
  Full contents CRC 0xf893 (read as 0xcb7e).


By the way, what does "10mpbs-serial 100baseTx scrambler" mean?
    Stoyan