From: Grischa Jacobs <grischa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
I had the same messages about unknown PHY transceivers and very poor transfer
rates. I figured that all but one of the transceivers had the status bit
MII_STAT_FAULT set. Selecting that one solved my problems.
I posted this and the patch already a while ago but didn't get any response.
It would be nice if a few people could check whether this fixes/breaks it for
them.
I just checked it with 2.6.6-rc3 and the problem is still there and gets
solved by the attached patch.
---
25-akpm/drivers/net/sis900.c | 5 +++++
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/net/sis900.c~sis900-xcvr-fix drivers/net/sis900.c
--- 25/drivers/net/sis900.c~sis900-xcvr-fix Wed May 19 14:51:16 2004
+++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/sis900.c Wed May 19 14:51:16 2004
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
preliminary Rev. 1.0 Jan. 18, 1998
http://www.sis.com.tw/support/databook.htm
+ Jan. 7 2004 Grischa Jacobs - Skip mii's with MII_STAT_FAULT set
Rev 1.08.07 Nov. 2 2003 Daniele Venzano <webvenza@xxxxxxxxx> add suspend/resume support
Rev 1.08.06 Sep. 24 2002 Mufasa Yang bug fix for Tx timeout & add SiS963 support
Rev 1.08.05 Jun. 6 2002 Mufasa Yang bug fix for read_eeprom & Tx descriptor over-boundary
@@ -546,6 +547,10 @@ static int __init sis900_mii_probe (stru
/* the mii is not accessible, try next one */
continue;
+ if (mii_status & MII_STAT_FAULT)
+ /* ignore mii with the fault bit set */
+ continue;