[vortex] 3c509B card loses link

[Paul Hampson]

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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:09:48AM -0500, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Paul Hampson wrote:
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> > Subject: [vortex] 3c509B card loses link
> ...
> > I have a 3c509B card in a co-located machine. Since we moved
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> Uhmmm, don't you mean "3c905B"?
> The '509 is an ISA card, and has its own mailing list.

Yes, yes I do. Apologies for the idiocy. :-)

> > from a location with a 10Mbps switch/hub to a 100Mbps switch,
> > the computer falls off the network every few days. Also, the
> > link light on the back of the card does not light up, and
> > the switch only sees it as 10Mbps.
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> Something must be forcing the speed or setting the wrong transceiver
> type.
> What driver version are you using?
> What is the detection message?

This is a (give-or-take) stock 2.4.18 kernel, with whatever patches
Debian have graced me with... (Nothing in that list obviously relates)
Nov 25 17:47:51 yurika kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others.  www.scyld.=
com/network/vortex.html
Nov 25 17:47:51 yurika kernel: 00:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx a=
t 0xec00. Vers LK1.1.16

> > yurika:~/3com# ./mii-diag eth0 -v
> > mii-diag.c:v2.07 11/15/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
> >  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> >   Using the new SIOCGMIIPHY value on PHY 0 (BMCR 0xc000).
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> What driver version are you using?  The PHY should be #24 or #1

yurika:~/3com# ./mii-diag eth0 -p 1
Using the specified MII PHY index 1.
Basic registers of MII PHY #1:  c000 c000 c000 c000 c000 c000 c000 c000.
 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 0xc000: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
 Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
  Transceiver in loopback mode!
  Transceiver currently being reset!
 Basic mode status register 0xc000 ... c000.
   Link status: not established.
 Your link partner advertised c000:.
   End of basic transceiver information.

yurika:~/3com# ./mii-diag eth0 -p 24
Using the specified MII PHY index 24.
Basic registers of MII PHY #24:  c000 c000 c000 c000 c000 c000 c000
c000.
 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 0xc000: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
 Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
  Transceiver in loopback mode!
  Transceiver currently being reset!
 Basic mode status register 0xc000 ... c000.
   Link status: not established.
 Your link partner advertised c000:.
   End of basic transceiver information.


> > yurika:~/3com# ./vortex-diag -mm
> > vortex-diag.c:v2.12 11/27/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
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> What does
>    vortex-diag -eee
> report?

yurika:~/3com# ./vortex-diag -eee
vortex-diag.c:v2.12 11/27/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx adapter at 0xec00.
 Station address 00:10:4b:13:78:2e.
  Receive mode is 0x07: Normal unicast and all multicast.
EEPROM format 64x16, configuration table at offset 0:
    00: 0010 4b13 782e 9055 c508 0036 4b4e 6d50  ___K.xU___6_NKPm
  0x08: 2979 0000 0010 4b13 782e 8010 0000 002a  y)_____K.x____*_
  0x10: 32a2 0000 0000 0000 0000 0004 0000 10b7  _2______________
  0x18: 9055 000a 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  U_______________
  0x20: 0010 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ________________
  0x28: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ________________
      ...

 The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0x1252.
Saved EEPROM settings of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang:
 3Com Node Address 00:10:4B:13:78:2E (used as a unique ID only).
 OEM Station address 00:10:4B:13:78:2E (used as the ethernet address).
  Device ID 9055,  Manufacturer ID 6d50.
  Manufacture date (MM/DD/YYYY) 8/8/1998, division 6, product NK.
  No BIOS ROM is present.
 Options: force full duplex, link beat required.
  Vortex format checksum is incorrect (78 vs. 10b7).
  Cyclone format checksum is correct (0x10 vs. 0x10).
  Hurricane format checksum is correct (0x10 vs. 0x10).

> >  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> > Index #1: Found a 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx adapter at 0xec00.
> >  Station address 00:10:4b:13:78:2e.
> >   Receive mode is 0x07: Normal unicast and all multicast.
> >  MII PHY found at address 1, status 3000.
> >  MII PHY 0 at #1 transceiver registers:
> >    3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000 3000

> This indicates some sort of misconfiguration -- likely a bogus
> transceiver setting.

Ah.

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