[tulip] AT-2800TX, I give up

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

thanks for your response.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:55:07PM -0500, Donald Becker wrote:
> > I have an Allied Telesyn AT-2800TX *revision 2* CardBus 10/100 TX card,
> > and it doesn't work.
> ...

I have been bugging Allied Telesyn for documentation, but the customer 
support is stupid and unwilling - "we no linux driver, go away".  Will
keep trying.

[..]
> > eth0: Digital DS21143-xD Tulip rev 65 at 0xc80cc000, 00:A0:D2:AF:49:60, IRQ 9.
> > eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> > eth0: ***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found!
> 
> Bad...
> 
> > 423]: executing: './network start eth0'
> > eth0: Tx hung, 9 vs. 7.
> > eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip transmit timed out, status f0260000, SIA 000000c6 ffff0000 fffbff7f 8ff10008, resetting...
> 
> And just as we expect with no transceiver, we time out with no carrier.

Yes...

[..]
> >  3 transceiver description blocks:
> >   Media MII, block type 3, length 19.
> >    MII interface PHY 0 (media type 11).
> >    21143 MII initialization sequence is 0 words:.
> >    21143 MII reset sequence is 3 words: 0807 0000 0002.
> >     Media capabilities are 7800, advertising 01e1.
> >     Full-duplex map 5000, Threshold map 1800.
> >     No MII interrupt.
> 
> This reports a normal MII transceiver, with a reset sequence.  This table
> looks as if it was written for this card.  The usual way for the designer
> to screw up is to use the table from the design kit without
> understanding what it does.

Maybe this *is* the problem...  the ATI Windows driver knowing how to 
work around this, and the "generic" driver doesn't, so the transceiver
isn't enabled.

So what do you suggest how to proceed?

gert
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