[tulip-bug] DC21143 ip autoconfig not working

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Daniel C. Nurmi wrote:

> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0xec00, 00:C0:F0:6A:5B:C1, IRQ 5.
> eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block.
> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
> 
> And the card (more specifically) is: Kingston KNE100TX (The DEC chip is Intel
> 21143PD).

The KNE100TX is a very standard card that uses a MII transceiver.  There is
nothing that should cause a problem with any driver version within the past
three years.

The mii-diag and the tulip-diag programs should help track down this
problem.  But I'm guessing that they are not available when the problem
occurs :-<.

> A (perhaps) related question is this:  is there a way to specify options to a
> built in tulip driver?  Through modules, I could use the options= method but
> I cannot determine how to do somthing similar for built in code.

Yes, third LILO option.  See the LILO section at
   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html

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