[vortex] Strange errors from 3c509B driver

[Richard Gooch]

Bogdan Costescu writes:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> > has 3 3C509B cards.
> 
> The detection message says that you have 3C905B cards, which are very
> different from 3C509 (without B).

Yeah, sorry. Stupid typo.

> > One of the links was upgraded to 100 Mb/s, and ... the other end is
> > supposed to be a 100 Mb/s FD switch port.
> 
> > eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
> >   Flags; bus-master 1, full 0; dirty 1582001(1) current 1582001(1).
> > eth1: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
> >   Flags; bus-master 1, full 0; dirty 1582322(2) current 1582322(2).
> 
> According to http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html, Tx status 82 means
> out-of-window error, happening when a half vs. full-duplex mismatch
> appears.
> Please run 'mii-diag -v' which should show what are the media settings in
> use.

% mii-diag -v eth1
mii-diag.c:v2.00 4/19/2000  Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
 MII PHY #24 transceiver registers:
   3000 786d 0000 0000 01e1 0080 0004 2001
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   8000 0008 0090 0000 0000 0005 2001 0000
   0000 203a 0506 1c11 0002 1000 0000 0000.
 Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
   This transceiver is capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
 Your link partner is generating 100baseTx link beat  (no autonegotiation).

The IT people told me they set the switch port to 100 Mb/s FD. Of
course, I have no way of checking, because the switch is in the
service corridor and I'm not part of the central campus ruling class
so I don't have a key. This is where the breakers are kept too, so you
can see why I would feel really empowered :-(

Anyway, even if they fouled up and set the switch to 100 Mb/s HD, I
would have thought that autonegotiation would have taken care of
this. I've even power-cycled the box, to no avail.

				Regards,

					Richard....
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