[tulip] Netgear FA310-TX NIC problems

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, A.J. Rossini wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Donald Becker wrote:

> > If it's easy to look at the board itself, what is the brand and part number
> > of the transceiver?  (Probably unimportant, but I'll see if I can add it to
> > libmii.c).
> 
> Again, will do tonight.  Does this mean you don't need it, or still do? 

It's possible that the transceiver is causing the problem by incorrectly
reporting busy media, but it's not very likely.
My primary interest is in adding the ID to 'libmii.c'.

> >   tulip-diag -af  > /tmp/t-d-working
> Index #1: Found a Lite-On 82c168 PNIC adapter at 0xde00.
> Lite-On 82c168 PNIC chip registers at 0xde00:
>   00008000 01ff0000 00450008 0ba3b000 0ba3b200 02660010 814c20c2 0001ebef
>   00000000 00000000 0ba3b230 07dbae0c 00000025 00000000 00000000 10000001
>   00000000 00000000 f0041385 000000bf 6086782d 0ba3b0b0 0bb70010 0201f878
>   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

> >   tulip-diag -af  > /tmp/t-d-broken
> Lite-On 82c168 PNIC chip registers at 0xde00:
>   00008000 01ff0000 01000608 0ba3b000 0ba3b200 02260010 814c20c2 0001ebef
>   00000000 00000000 0ba3b2d0 0ba3b2d0 00000025 00000000 00000000 10000001
>   00000000 00000000 f0041385 000000bf 6086782d 0ba3b1c0 07767010 0201f878
>   00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000

Nothing looks abnormal to me.  I'll set a '169 chip up on a 10mbps repeater
and see if I can reproduce the problem.

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