On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 08:39:00AM +0100, Frantisek Rysanek wrote:
> On 16 Mar 2018 at 22:02, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >
> > Does ethtool -m show anything useful?
> >
>
> Not much. "unsupported".
static int igb_get_module_info(struct net_device *netdev,
struct ethtool_modinfo *modinfo)
{
struct igb_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(netdev);
struct e1000_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
u32 status = 0;
u16 sff8472_rev, addr_mode;
bool page_swap = false;
if ((hw->phy.media_type == e1000_media_type_copper) ||
(hw->phy.media_type == e1000_media_type_unknown))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
Suggests that the driver does not know you have a fibre module.
> Right now I've modded igb_init_i2c() to engage the bit-banging
> i2c driver for the i210 too
I don't think that will work. The datasheet for the i210 talks about
two registers for I2C/MDIO which are not bit-banging. Only the i350
uses bit-banging.
Andrew
