[vortex] Test results with 3c90xcfg -- I'M CONFUSED!

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Bill Cattey wrote:

> The network on that system is in SLOW mode, and mii-diag won't touch the bits.

Have you also tried 'mii-diag -R' and 'mii-diag -r' ? They should restart 
autonegotiation (quite similar in this respect to a cable reconnect) and 
reset transceiver. If they don't have any effect then either the 
transceiver was not detected correctly or the transceiver is still not 
properly initialized. Using the driver with a higher debug level should 
show what transceiver was detected and its initial state.

> 	The 3c59x driver thought the MII was alive and well.
> 	But where it could not, in fact, speak to the MII properly.

I don't see how this could happen. The scanning done by the driver should 
eliminate MII transceivers that don't "speak properly".

> Tell me what bits need to change in the vortex-diag EEPROM diddling
> patch to make things happy.  As shown below.

Well, you didn't provide this info to me 8-) 'vortex-diag -e' should 
print EEPROM content. I didn't ask for it until now, as I wanted to see if 
it works at all. So what I need is 'vortex-diag -eav' output for:

- card set with 3c90xcfg.exe to Autonegotiate
- card set with 3c90xcfg.exe to 10Mbit, Half-duplex
- (maybe useful) card set with 3c90xcfg.exe to 100MBit, Full-duplex
- card set with vortex-diag with my patch

For each of this also a short notice if it works or not (to have them all 
together...). As I said in my previous message (didn't make it yet to the 
list, probably was caught by Scyld's filters because of the attachement), 
the documentation and my own results of running 3c90xcfg are not 
identical; so far, I trusted what I saw with my own eyes, meaning the 
results from 3c90xcfg, but maybe that was wrong - maybe there was 
something specific to my model of the card (PCI ID 10b7:9200).

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Bogdan Costescu

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