Bug report, as much information as I can give...

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Winged Wolf wrote:

> The symptom is, the module loads properly, but nothing comes in or out.
> tcpdump doesn't show anything going across the line at all.  Can't ping,
> can't be pinged.
> 
> I'm using the 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 driver (the one included with kernel
> revision 2.2.12).
> 
> Trying to work around this problem, I've tried the following
> combinations of options:
> options=0 full_duplex=0
> options=8 full_duplex=0
> options=9 full_duplex=0

You shouldn't be passing any options.

> eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x1080, 00:50:da:1c:9d:7d, IRQ 10
>   Internal Config register is 1800000, transceivers 0xa.
>   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
>   Media override to transceiver type 0 (10baseT).

The 10baseT transceiver isn't connected on the 3c905B.

Load the module with no options, and use 'mii-diag' to find the link status.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/index.html

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov