[vortex] Problem with 3com 10/100 Mini PCI adapter (3c556B?) under 2.2.19

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Akihiko YAMAMOTO wrote:
> # ./getup 8
> ...
> Jul  5 15:48:15 jasmin kernel:   Media override to transceiver type 8 (Autonegotiate).
> Jul  5 15:48:15 jasmin kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7849.

My guess is that selecting transceiver 0 is bogus. Please try to play with
mii-diag. I'd be interested to see the results from 'mii-diag -p 24 -v',
which selects transceiver 24 - standard for Cyclone and Tornado chips
(yes, I've seen that your card is identified as Hurricane).

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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