[vortex] 3c905CX-TXM

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Berkan Eskikaya wrote:

> > What if the driver gets the MII registers address wrong ?
> > So, can you try running 'mii-diag -p 24 eth1' ?
> We'll there is a definite change; mii-diag now reports link beat, but
> I still cannot ping anywhere.
>
> $ mii-diag -p 24 eth1
> Using the specified MII PHY index 24.
> Basic registers of MII PHY #24:  3000 7829 0041 6800 05e1 40a1 0007 2801.

Well, I somehow expected that. Page 147 of the documentation says:

"These auto-negotiation registers are accessed through the MII management
interface using a PHY address (PHYAD) of 11000b" = 24.

So on Tornado cards, the internal MII interface (which is always present
according to the docs) is always located at PHYAD = 24. I hope that this
is also true for CardBus devices.
In vortex_probe1(), if MII or NWAY is used, there is a search for the MII
interfaces (there can be more than 1). Why this search suddenly doesn't
work anymore, I don't know; Don, do you have any ideea ? Maybe the
preamble confuses the interface ? Maybe some more checks are needed before
saying "we have a valid MII interface at this PHYAD" ?

A workaround can be a test for IS_TORNADO and always add one interface
with PHYAD = 24, but this still leaves the other 2 (or 4 according to
vortex-diag output) MII interfaces detected. Now I don't understand
something: if there are several MII interfaces and they provide similar
capabilities, how is one of them selected as being the one in use ?

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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