AsanteFAST, Linux, no link

Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Fri Oct 22 17:08:45 1999


On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Axel Rose wrote:

> hope this is the right forum for my question.
> I freshly installed Linux 2.2.10 on a used PC.
> I'm using a AsanteFAST 10/100 PCI card.
..
> tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0xe800, 00 00 94 75 75 64, IRQ 11.
> eth0: Old format EEPROM on 'Asante' board. Using substitue media control info.
> eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block.
> etho: ***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found!

Please try v0.91.
If that doesn't work, run 'tulip-diag -m' to see if a MII transceiver is
found.

BTW, how old is this board?  It must be fairly old to not have a valid
EEPROM media table.

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov