[tulip] Macronix 98715 PMAC rev 37

[Matthew]

Thanks for answering my questions!

>Please don't say "newest driver".  Use the version number.
>(The "newest driver" is usually the half-broken test copy on my machine.)

  My bad, I should have known better about which driver version number I was 
using. Its v0.92t dated 1/15/2001.

> This I can check out.
> Why are using passing options?
> Does your card actually have a MII 100baseFX-HDX transceiver (media type
> 16)?

To be honest, I had no idea. Took a couple of shots in the dark, luckily I 
managed to remember how to get into the system without networking. I was 
passing options to try and force 100 half duplex. 

Here is the relevant section I extracted from dmesg, hope this is sufficient. 
If not I can dig for more.

tulip.c:v0.92t 1/15/2001  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC rev 37 at 0xc8842000, 00:80:C6:EB:B1:03, IRQ 5.
eth0:  EEPROM default media type 10baseT.

Its attached to a Linksys 10/100 Hub. 

Thanks so much for looking into this. 

Many thanks,

Matthew Johnson

On Sunday 28 January 2001 09:37 am, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Matthew wrote:
> > Having an interesting problem with a SoHOware Fast NDC 10/100 F/E Adapter
> > card. Its chipset is being seen as Macronix 98715 PMAC rev 37 by the
> > Tulip driver.
> >
> > First question: Anyone got decent information on this card? Do not hold
> > back....
>
> It's difficult to get info.  LiteOn apparently sold their PNIC-II design
> to Macronix sometime after the 98725 was released.  It's curious that
> Macronix would buy an external design if there were happy with the
> design they already owned. Anyway, the 987** series seems to have
> disappeared from the marketplace.
>
> > Second (main question): I am using the newest driver for this card
> > from the  src rpm,
>
> Please don't say "newest driver".  Use the version number.
> (The "newest driver" is usually the half-broken test copy on my machine.)
>
> > but everytime I have setup the options=3 or 16 I
> > get a segfault when bringing up eth0.
>
> This I can check out.
> Why are using passing options?
> Does your card actually have a MII 100baseFX-HDX transceiver (media type
> 16)?
>
> What is the detection message for the card?  (I need to know the
> approximate media table to figure out what is going wrong.)
>
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