[tulip] Problem with SMC 9334BDT Support

gemorga2 gemorga2@vt.edu
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:18:48 -0400


The SMC 9334BDT dual port ethernet adapter should work with the "tulip" driver 
in Linux.  Using the sources for Linux Kernel v2.4.3, I built a kernel which 
has the tulip driver statically linked in.  In this version of the driver the 
MAC chips appear to be initialized but the PHY (transciever) does not get 
initialized properly (it does not establish a link with a 10/100 switch which 
is known good via known good cables)  Below are the pertinent data from dmesg:

Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14 (February 20, 2001)
eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0xe000, 00:E0:29:4D:C0:8D, IRQ 9.
eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
eth0:  MII transceiver #3 config 3100 status 7849 advertising 01e1.
eth0:  Advertising 0001 on PHY 3, previously advertising 01e1.
eth0:  Advertising 0001 (to advertise is 0001).
eth1: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0xe400, 00:E0:29:4D:C0:8E, IRQ 12.
eth1:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth1:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
eth1:  MII transceiver #3 config 3100 status 7849 advertising 01e1.
eth1:  Advertising 0001 on PHY 3, previously advertising 01e1.
eth1:  Advertising 0001 (to advertise is 0001).