Miata - 21143 not getting link?

Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Mon Oct 25 21:58:26 1999


On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 jpranevich@lycos.com wrote:

[[ Background: problem with a 21143  w/ MII transceiver not establishing
link beat. ]]
> > I have a Digital Personal Workstation 433au that I just can't seem to get on
> > eth0:  Index #4 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
> > eth0:  Advertising 0061 on PHY 0 (0).
> What I know is that the network is 100baseT at all the hubs,

Try 'mii-diag -R' and 'mii-diag -A 0x01e1' just after the interface is
started.
   http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/index.html

If this fixes the problem, we'll need to figure out why the transceiver is
advertising only 10baseT media types.  Run 'tulip-diag -e'.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov