[vortex-bug] AUI connector with 3C905B-Combo, a workaround

[Moritz Franosch]

Bogdan Costescu <Bogdan.Costescu@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De> writes:

> On 18 Aug 2000, Moritz Franosch wrote:
> 
> >  Transceiver/media interfaces available:  100baseTx 10baseT 10base2 AUI10baseFL.
> > Transceiver type in use:  Autonegotiate.
> >  MAC settings: half-duplex.
> 
> These are the relevant lines. The card is initialized in Autonegotiate
> mode, for some reason, even with "options=1".
> 
> Can you do 'modprobe 3c59x options=1 debug=2" and report (only) the output
> from /var/log/messages ?

modprobe 3c59x options=1 debug=2

gives

Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vo
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 10/100/BNC at 0xd000,  00:01:02:2a:bb:a9, IRQ 5
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel:   Internal config register is 1800000, transceivers 0x3a.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel:   Media override to transceiver type 1 (10Mbs AUI).
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel:   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: Media override to transceiver 1 (10Mbs AUI).
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: Initial media type 10Mbs AUI.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: vortex_open() InternalConfig 01100000.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: vortex_open() irq 5 media status 8080.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: Media selection timer tick happened, 10Mbs AUI.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: Media 10Mbs AUI is has no indication, 8808.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: vortex_close() status e000, Tx status 00.
Aug 22 21:10:57 star2 kernel: eth0: vortex close stats: rx_nocopy 0 rx_copy 0 tx_queued 0 Rx pre-checksummed 0.


Moritz