[tulip] Linksys PCM200 v2 now works with updated driver and diag.
Donald Becker
becker@scyld.com
Fri Aug 2 16:03:00 2002
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> At 12:57 PM -0400 8/2/02, Donald Becker wrote:
> > > >Could you get me the full name and version of the board?
> >> well, here's physical ID info, from packaging:
> >> Model Number: PCM200 ver 2
> > tulip-diag -eee
> It thinks its a V1.0 card :-)...see below.
Hmmm, I'll leave the name as v3 with the justification that 1+2=3 ;->
> Oh, and interestingly, inserting the card caused one of those
> infamous spurious interrupts, which I spent a couple hours
IRQ7? That's a hardware glitch.
> >I do want to figure out what register read "locks" the transceiver to
> >one address.
>
> ok, what do you need to figure that out? If push comes to shove, I
> can make the box accessible...
I should be able to track this down on my own.
> EEPROM contents (256 words):
...
> 0x00: 0985 0002 0000 0000 0400 9e5a ec9e 0000 __________Z_____
> 0x08: 0000 0400 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 ________________
> 0x10: ab09 1737 ab09 1737 ffff 0202 0000 804c __7___7_______L_
> 0x18: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ________________
> 0x20: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ________________
> 0x28: 0040 0060 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 @_`_____________
> 0x30: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ________________
> 0x38: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 f9d4 ________________
...
> ID block CRC 0x09 (vs. 00).
> Full contents CRC 0xf9d4 (read as 0xf9d4).
At least they got the CRC right.
> 0xa0: 0313 4943 2053 d104 0213 21ab 0602 2201 __CIS _____!___"
> 0xa8: 0102 2202 0205 9680 0098 0522 0002 f5e1 ___"______"_____
> 0xb0: 2205 0302 1501 0546 4c00 6e69 736b 7379 _"____F__Linksys
> 0xb8: 4500 6874 7265 6146 7473 4920 746e 6765 _EtherFast Integ
> 0xc0: 6172 6574 2064 3031 312f 3030 4320 7261 rated 10/100 Car
> 0xc8: 4264 7375 5020 2043 6143 6472 5028 4d43 dBus PC Card(PCM
> 0xd0: 3032 2930 5600 2e31 0030 ff00 0400 0306 200)_V1.0_______
This definitely isn't the first version Linksys put out. I'm guessing
that some new guy didn't know to update the CIS entry.
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Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
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