MII transmitter not found

[Yongling Ding]

It's not working with MII or 10Base-T. I have to force it to 100Base-T even
the link is actually 10Base-T. DHCP is not working yet, so I have to set IP
address statically. It seems that the card gets confused with the commands
sent by the driver. Without options=4, the interface will be working after
around 3 minutes if I set the IP manually. It's pretty stable so far with
almost 500M downloading.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-linux-vortex-bug@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> [mailto:owner-linux-vortex-bug@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov]On Behalf Of Jill
> K. Smith
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 1:53 PM
> To: Yongling Ding; linux-vortex-bug@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Cc: becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Subject: Re: MII transmitter not found
>
>
> Does your card still work on the net?  I have had that problem occur
> using Redhat 5.1 on a Dell Optiplex, also with a 3c509B card.  I was
> also using version .99E of the driver.  It turned out that this occurred
> only when the card was set to 10MB half duplex.  If I changed it to
> 100MB full duplex the error went away.  In either case I was able to
> connect to the network fine with no errors.  I decided after much
> searching for people with this same problem that it was unique to Dell's
> for some reason and that the error had no impact.  Thus, I am ignoring
> the message.  I have had systems up and running this way for months now,
> with no problems.
>
> ....Jill.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yongling Ding <yding@nd.edu>
> To: linux-vortex-bug@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov
> <linux-vortex-bug@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> Cc: becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov <becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 1:45 PM
> Subject: MII transmitter not found
>
>
> >Under RedHat 5.2 on Dell OptiPlex PII 300, 3c905B has been detected at
> >boot time (0.99H), but a warning message shows MII transceiver is not
> >found. The strange thing is two runs of diag programs generate
> different
> >outputs. It seems that it takes a while for the MII to be found. The
> first
> >run immediately after the boot shows:
> >Found a 3Com PCI Ethernet 3c905b rev 4 at 0xdc00.
> >Initial window 7, registers values by window:
> >  Window 0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 5555 00bf 0000 0000.
> >  Window 1: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2000.
> >  Window 2: 1000 cd4b c9be 0000 0000 0000 000a 4000.
> >  Window 3: 0000 0060 05ea 0000 000a 0800 00f8 6000.
> >  Window 4: 0000 0000 0000 0ed2 0001 8830 0000 8000.
> >  Window 5: 1ffc 0000 0000 0600 0807 06de 06c6 a000.
> >  Window 6: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 c000.
> >  Window 7: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 e000.
> >Vortex chip registers at 0xdc00
> >  0xDC10: 00000000 00000000 00000093 00000000
> >  0xDC20: 000000a0 03407a40 00080000 00000004
> >  0xDC30: 00000000 4eaeb152 03407810 00080004
> > No interrupt sources are pending.
> > Transceiver/media interfaces available:  100baseTx 10baseT.
> > MAC settings: half-duplex.
> >EEPROM contents:
> >  0010 4bcd bec9 9055 c4cd 0036 584e 6d50
> >  2971 0000 0010 4bcd bec9 0030 0000 002a
> >  32a6 0000 0000 0080 0000 0004 0000 10b7
> >  9055 000a 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >  00eb 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> > The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0x2f38.
> >Parsing the EEPROM of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang:
> > 3Com Node Address 00:10:4B:CD:BE:C9 (used as a unique ID only).
> > OEM Station address 00:10:4B:CD:BE:C9 (used as the ethernet address).
> > Manufacture date (MM/DD/YY) 6/13/98, division 6, product NX.
> >Options: .
> >  Vortex checksum is 83 (vs. 10b7),Cyclone checksum is eb (vs. eb).
> > ***WARNING***: No MII transceivers found!
> >
> >But after a while, the second run shows
> >Found a 3Com PCI Ethernet 3c905b rev 4 at 0xdc00.
> >Initial window 0, registers values by window:
> >  Window 0: 0000 0000 0000 0000 5555 0000 000a 0000.
> >  Window 1: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 2000.
> >  Window 2: 1000 cd4b c9be 0000 0000 0000 000a 4000.
> >  Window 3: 0000 0080 05ea 0000 000a 0800 0800 6000.
> >  Window 4: 0000 0000 0000 0012 0000 8880 0000 8000.
> >  Window 5: 1ffc 0000 0000 1ffc 0800 0000 0000 a000.
> >  Window 6: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 c000.
> >  Window 7: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 e000.
> >Vortex chip registers at 0xdc00
> >  0xDC10: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> >  0xDC20: 00000000 00000000 00080000 00000004
> >  0xDC30: 00000000 de1e21e2 00000000 00080004
> > No interrupt sources are pending.
> > Transceiver/media interfaces available:  100baseTx 10baseT.
> > MAC settings: half-duplex.
> >EEPROM contents:
> >  0010 4bcd bec9 9055 c4cd 0036 584e 6d50
> >  2971 0000 0010 4bcd bec9 0030 0000 002a
> >  32a6 0000 0000 0080 0000 0004 0000 10b7
> >  9055 000a 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >  00eb 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> > The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0x2f38.
> >Parsing the EEPROM of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang:
> > 3Com Node Address 00:10:4B:CD:BE:C9 (used as a unique ID only).
> > OEM Station address 00:10:4B:CD:BE:C9 (used as the ethernet address).
> > Manufacture date (MM/DD/YY) 6/13/98, division 6, product NX.
> >Options: .
> >  Vortex checksum is 83 (vs. 10b7),Cyclone checksum is eb (vs. eb).
> > MII PHY found at address 0, status 7869.
> > MII PHY found at address 1, status 7869.
> > MII PHY found at address 2, status 7869.
> > MII PHY found at address 3, status 7869.
> > MII PHY 0 at #0 transceiver registers:
> >   3000 786d 0000 0000 01e1 0020 0004 2001
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0ecf 1fdd 0000 0000 0005 2001 0000
> >   0000 2040 07cf 1c11 0011 1000 0000 0000.
> > MII PHY 1 at #1 transceiver registers:
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
> > MII PHY 2 at #2 transceiver registers:
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
> > MII PHY 3 at #3 transceiver registers:
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
> >
> >
> >
>
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