[vortex] Problem with 3com 10/100 Mini PCI adapter (3c556B?)under2.2.19

[Andrew Morton]

Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it does appear that MII #0 is the one for this NIC.  The
> > 2.4 driver looks for an MII at #24 first.  There isn't one
> > there.
> 
> OK, that was just a blind supposition.
> 
> I've seen in the logs and in the vortex-diag output that MII was selected
> (instead of Autonegotiate). If you didn't specifically use "options=6"
> when loading the module, then MII is set in the EEPROM. Can you use the
> DOS tool from 3Com to set it to NWAY/Autonegotiate ?

It's worth a shot.  The tool is at
ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c90x/3c90xx2.exe

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