On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Hi, all. I've just taken the patch Jason released on 28-AUG and
> applied it to 2.4.19. The driver finds my D-Link 580-TX 4-port
> ethercard, and it seems to be running OK. However, I note a few warts:
>
> - the driver is reporting 10 Mbps rather than 100 Mbps. I've actually
> measured eth0 and eth2 and these are delivering 100 Mbps
>
> - I tried to force eth1 to 100 Mbps FD, but I don't know for sure if
> it's working or not (the switch that eth1 connects to doesn't do
...
> sundance.c:v1.01d 28-Aug-2002 Written by Donald Becker
My 1.01 version released in early 2001. Perhaps distinguishing this
from my release would be useful.
> eth0: D-Link DFE-580TX 4 port Server Adapter at 0xc000, 00:05:5d:10:4d:b8,
> IRQ 5.
> eth0: MII PHY found at address 0, status 0x782d advertising 01e1.
> eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x782d advertising 01e1.
This is wrong. My driver starts searching for MII PHYs at #1 to avoid
the quirks of accessing a transceiver at #0.
Background: Nominally the #0 transceiver address is reserved for
physically external, plug-in transceiver. Such an external transceiver
powers up disconnected from the MII data transfer path, and the driver
must explicitly disable all other transceivers and enable #0 to use it.
However in real life you never encounter this situation. Instead
some non-standard transceivers respond to address #0 as well as their
proper address. Except that they often don't operate properly when
accessed at #0, so the driver should always use their real MII address.
> eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #0 negotiated capability 01e1.
> eth1: Link changed: Autonegotiation advertising 10Mbps full duplex, partner
> 10Mbps full duplex.
> eth1: Setting full-duplex based on MII #0 negotiated capability 0100.
Yeah, that pretty much points directly to a flaw...
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