AW: [vortex] Slow connection in local domain

[Andrew Morton]

"Suikat, Reiner" wrote:
> 
> mii-diag -v
> 
> mii-diag.c:v2.01a 5/15/2001 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
>  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
>  MII PHY #24 transceiver registers:
>    3000 782d 0040 6174 05e1 0021 0000 0000
>    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>    1000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0100 0000
>    003c d006 0f00 ff40 002c 0000 0080 000b The autonegotiated capability is
> 0000.
> No common media type was autonegotiated!
> This is extremely unusual and typically indicates a configuration error.
> Perhaps the advertised capability set was intentionally limited.
>  Basic mode control register 0x6d64: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
>  Speed fixed at 100 mbps, full-duplex.
>   Transceiver isolated from the MII!
>   Transceiver powered down!
>   Transceiver in loopback mode!
>  Basic mode status register 0x4001 ... 782d.
>    Link status: previously broken, but now reestablished.
>    This transceiver is capable of  100baseTx-FD.
>    Unable to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
>  Your link partner advertised 4001:.
> 
> at least mii-diag is reporting a problem.
> 

It certainly is.  Most of those values are pretty much
junk, I think.

It's a 3c920 in a Toshiba Docking station.  That's unusual,
and something funny is going on.  I'm afraid I don't have
much to suggest.

A workaround may be to use `options=4' or similar to bypass
the MII.