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

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Winged Wolf wrote:

> > > 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).
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> I tried to do it without any options, and it failed with exactly the same
> error.  I tried using options=8, because your page
> (cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html) says that 8 is: "3c905B
> internal transceiver (the correct transceiver type on the Cyclone)".
> (Documentation error?)

No, it's because of the year-old driver in the kernel.  The older driver
only accepts transceiver types 0..7

> I'm downloading mii-diag right now; also, I'm going to download the 0.99L
> version of the driver from your website and drop that in if mii-diag
> doesn't do much good.

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