I demand that Francois Romieu may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > [...] >> The former. Without that, the connection is persistently re-negotiated >> (though, according to the switch's LEDs, it's fine before the module is >> loaded).
> The state of the LEDs at startup is not necessarily significant (it can > come from the eeprom). I'm inclined to believe the switch... > I have regenerated a serie which includes a fix with the correct RTL_CFG_2 > at http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.18-rc5/r8169 (the git > branch has been updated as well). Got it. > Could you use it with mii-tool to collect the state of the mii registers in > the broken state and in the working state ? Broken: eth0: no link registers for MII PHY 32: 1000 7849 0000 8201 0de1 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 05c0 0000 000f 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0080 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 product info: vendor 00:00:20, model 32 rev 1 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: no link capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control eth0: no link registers for MII PHY 32: 3100 7849 0000 8201 0de1 45e0 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000c 05c0 007a 000f 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00f8 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 product info: vendor 00:00:20, model 32 rev 1 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: no link capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control Working (after "mii-tool -A 10baseT eth0"): eth0: negotiated 10baseT-FD, link ok registers for MII PHY 32: 1100 786d 0000 8201 0061 45e1 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000c 05c0 0000 000f 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0086 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 product info: vendor 00:00:20, model 32 rev 1 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control Working (after "mii-tool -R eth0", needed to allow 100baseTx): eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok registers for MII PHY 32: 3100 786d 0000 8201 01e1 45e1 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 000c 05c0 0000 0002 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 00f9 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 product info: vendor 00:00:20, model 32 rev 1 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control -- | Darren Salt | linux or ds at | nr. Ashington, | Toon | RISC OS, Linux | youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | Northumberland | Army | Say NO to UK ID cards. http://www.no2id.net/ Windows 2000. Known to some as Windows 1900. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
