[vortex] 3c590 troubles

[Mike Paige]

yeah, I thought it was possible that the EEPROM might not be giving the
right results, except for the fact that both nics have the exact same
problem.  They are very consistent about it too...  at boot time the
internal register is 1020012, but after boot time, it is always 102001b.
Seems strange that two nics would perform in exactly the same manner on
two different machines and have it be a hardware problem.  At least I have
a fix for the problem, perhaps this will help someone else too.

Thanks,
Mike


On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Mike Paige wrote:
> >
> >   Internal config register is 1020012, transceivers 0xe138.
> >   32K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
>
> These numbers are read by the hardware from the on-board EEPROM
> and are placed into the InternalConfig register.  The driver
> only ever alters bits 20-23 of that register.  I've reviewed the code,
> and it looks OK.
>
> Possible the EEPROM is dodgy?  Certainly if you're getting
> erratic EEPROM values, the NIC will do strange things.
>