[vortex] Re: Problems with 3c59x driver network adapter stops working

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Ruben van der Leij wrote:

> It would seem that there's a difference in opinion between the drivers and
> the cards point of view as to what 'factory defaults' exactly is. :)

The driver tries to respect the EEPROM setting. A logical default EEPROM 
setting is "Autonegotiate" or "Autoselect". However, it seems that some 
cards come preconfigured to other settings and some get new settings even 
during the PXE boot according to Donald.
I have started thinking several times about doing a "smart" media 
selection that would be forgiving about bad settings (either EEPROM or 
module parameters), but I also hate when drivers get too smart and fail - 
so my thoughts were never expressed as code...
Instead I tried to make vortex-diag be able to set media in EEPROM, but 
the feedback that I've got was very low, so I still don't know if it does 
the right thing (as the right thing appears different between real world 
and documentation).

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Bogdan Costescu

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