[eepro100] Performance prob. (again)

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Arthur Rinkel wrote:

> 'ifconfig' reports...RX packets:214660 errors:21 dropped:0 overruns:0
>                      frame:504.

Very bad -- if your duplex has been negotiated correctly, frame errors
usually indicate bad cables.  Usually mis-paired cables.  (My favorite is
"they can't be mispaired, I made them myself".  The pairing only makes
sense if you think like phone guy.)

>  MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
>   3000 782d 02a8 0150 01e1 41e1 0001 ffff

Looks pretty much OK to me.

>   ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
>   0a03 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   0000 0000 16f6 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff.

Hmmm, there are no symbol errors reported in register 20..23.
I would expect symbol errors to result in non-zero counts.

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