[tulip] still trying

[Marinho Barcellos]

Donald Becker wrote:

> > I'm still trying to get the Conexant nic to work. Last time

> What driver version are you using?
v0.93, as reported in syslog (btw, a 2.4.14 system, mandrake)

> What is the detection message?
(using mode 13)
from syslog:
Dec 11 17:41:50 tyne kernel: tulip.c:v0.93 11/7/2001  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
Dec 11 17:41:50 tyne kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
Dec 11 17:41:50 tyne kernel:   The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 0/72!  Updating PCI command 0003->0007.
Dec 11 17:41:50 tyne kernel: eth0: Conexant LANfinity rev 8 at 0xd0a51000, 00:50:8B:AB:1A:80, IRQ 9.
Dec 11 17:41:50 tyne kernel: eth0: Transceiver selection forced to MII 100baseTx.
Dec 11 17:41:50 tyne kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
Dec 11 17:41:50 tyne kernel: eth0:  Advertising 0080 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1.
Dec 11 17:41:50 tyne kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver #0 config 2000 status 780d advertising 0080.

> What does 'mii-diag' report?

[root@tyne diag]# mii-diag  -vw eth0
mii-diag.c:v2.00 4/19/2000  Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
SIOCGMIIPHY on eth0 failed: Operation not supported

> The "processing setup information" likely means that you are using a
> driver that hasn't correctly initialized the chip.
> 
> > I guess it should work with options=3 (100baseTx)
> 
> That sets the chip for a SYM transceiver.  It has an on-chip MII
> transceiver.

right, so it should work with 13, but is experiencing a problem
during initialization.

cheers
Marinho.
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