[tulip] Tulip and PowerPC endian issue?

[Donald Becker]

On 31 Jan 2003, Jim Rowe wrote:

> > Has anyone with a PPC tried to the driver with a message level of 15?
> 
> There are additional messages when I try to ping something on the card's
> subnet with a debug level of 15:
> 
> Nov 30 18:01:19 eth0 kernel: tulip.c:v0.95f 11/17/2002  Written by
> Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> 
> Nov 30 18:01:19 eth0 kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html 
> Nov 30 18:01:19 eth0 kernel: eth1: ADMtek Centaur-C rev 17 at
> 0xc902f000, 00:10:7A:69:F0:79, IRQ 30. 
> Nov 30 18:01:19 eth0 kernel: eth1:  MII transceiver #1 config 1100
> status 7849 advertising 05e1. 
> Nov 30 18:11:08 eth0 kernel: eth1: MII link partner 0000, negotiated
> 0000. 
> Nov 30 18:11:08 eth0 kernel: eth1: No link beat on the MII interface,
> status 7849. 

I'm guessing that this is correct -- no cable connected.

> Nov 30 18:11:11 eth0 kernel: eth1: MII link partner 0000, negotiated
> 0000. 
> Nov 30 18:11:11 eth0 kernel: eth1: No link beat on the MII interface,
> status 7849. 
> Nov 30 18:12:11 eth0 kernel: eth1: MII link partner 45e1, negotiated
> 05e1. 
> Nov 30 18:12:11 eth0 kernel: eth1: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1
> link partner capability of 45e1. 

And now we get link beat.

If you tried to ping, there should be more messages.  Run 'dmesg', or
config syslog to record the "debug" level messages from the kernel:

   echo "kern.*		-/var/log/debug" >> /etc/syslog.conf



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