Bug 77992
Summary: | mii-tool mis-reports link status on 3C905B-FX | ||||||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Gabriel Schulhof <gabrielschulhof> | ||||
Component: | net-tools | Assignee: | Radek Vokál <rvokal> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Ben Levenson <benl> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 8.0 | CC: | dgenn, ecki, tilmann | ||||
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Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2004-10-07 15:22:55 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Gabriel Schulhof
2002-11-17 01:26:21 UTC
I have fixed this upstream in the CVS which is the core for the next net-tools release. But I guess it is not only a problem with the recognition of an absent MII tranceiver, but also with the steadyly changing kernel ABI. I hope to get this cleaned up for 2.6. Current version attached. It might require a local mii.h copy. Bernd (ecki.de> Created attachment 95322 [details]
future version, please test
sorry, dont have the RH source so no patch
I tried the attached source code on a red hat 9 but still the same problem. However, there are some more strange things happening. The card is at only 10mb but the card and the network could do 100mb. mii-diag says: ./mii-diag Using the default interface 'eth0'. Basic registers of MII PHY #0: c000 c000 c000 c000 c000 c000 c000 c000. The autonegotiated capability is 0000. No common media type was autonegotiated! This is extremely unusual and typically indicates a configuration error. Perhaps the advertised capability set was intentionally limited. Basic mode control register 0xc000: Auto-negotiation disabled, with Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex. Transceiver in loopback mode! Transceiver currently being reset! Basic mode status register 0xc000 ... c000. Link status: not established. Your link partner advertised c000:. End of basic transceiver information. dmesg says: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0e.0 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt 00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400. Vers LK1.1.18-ac 00:50:04:36:ee:54, IRQ 11 product code 544a rev 00.12 date 03-05-99 Internal config register is 0000, transceivers 0xa. 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, 10baseT interface. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. 00:0e.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 I dont understand this, why is mii-diag not reporting that it has not found a tranceiver? Turn off Kudzu at the boot runlevel with chkconfig and reboot and run mii-toll and see what happens. Everything will report fine and the nic will be fine. This is a duplicate bug for the 3c905 series cards an this 1.x version of Kudzu which also affects the Ent. 3 RH products and has been around since Fedora test1 and is still in the release vers as well. |