[tulip-bug] Re: Allnet 8832 almost working with v0.92 tulip driver

[Tobias Abt]

I have some more information concerning my card:

tulip-diag.c:v2.00 4/19/2000 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a Digital DS21143 Tulip adapter at 0xb800.
 Port selection is MII, full-duplex.
 Transmit started, Receive started, full-duplex.
  The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
  The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
  The transmit threshold is 128.
  The NWay status register is 000000c6.
PCI Subsystem IDs, vendor 1109, device 2b00.
CardBus Information Structure at offset 00000000.
Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:E0:7D:70:05:1E.
EEPROM transceiver/media description for the Digital DS21143 Tulip chip.
Leaf node at offset 40, default media type 0800 (Autosense).
 2 transceiver description blocks:
   MII interface PHY 0 (media type 11).
   21143 MII initialization sequence is 2 words: 0821 0001.
   21143 MII reset sequence is 3 words: 0821 0001 0001.
    Media capabilities are 7800, advertising 01e1.
    Full-duplex map 5000, Threshold map 1800.
    No MII interrupt.
   Serial transceiver for 10base2 (media type 65).
 mdio_read(0xb800, 0, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 1, 1).. MII PHY found \
      at address 1, status 0x782d.
 mdio_read(0xb800, 2, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 3, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 4, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 5, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 6, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 7, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 8, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 9, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 10, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 11, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 12, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 13, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 14, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 15, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 16, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 17, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 18, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 19, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 20, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 21, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 22, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 23, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 24, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 25, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 26, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 27, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 28, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 29, 1)..
    mdio_read(0xb800, 30, 1).. mdio_read(0xb800, 31, 1)..
 Internal autonegotiation state is 'Autonegotiation disabled'.

mii-diag.c:v2.00 4/19/2000  Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
 MII PHY #32 transceiver registers:
   0000 7848 0000 0000 0441 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
 Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
 Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
 Basic mode status register 0x7848 ... 7848.
   Link status: not established.
   This transceiver is capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
 Link partner information information is not exchanged when in fixed speed mode.
 MII PHY #32 transceiver registers:
   0000 7848 0000 0000 0441 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
 Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled!
   Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
 Basic mode status register 0x7848 ... 7848.
   Link status: not established.
   Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
 This transceiver has no vendor identification.
 I'm advertising 0441: Flow-control 10baseT-FD
   Advertising no additional info pages.
   IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD protocol.
 Link partner capability is 0000:.
   Negotiation did not complete.


Some ftp transfer (upload) results (100Mbit/FD autonegotiated):
4875493 bytes sent in 147.10 seconds, 32.37 kB/s.
3359137 bytes sent in 54.74 seconds, 59.93 kB/s.
3469061 bytes sent in 78.92 seconds, 42.92 kB/s.
3023516 bytes sent in 53.20 seconds, 55.50 kB/s.
4671111 bytes sent in 130.77 seconds, 34.88 kB/s.
3079523 bytes sent in 113.96 seconds, 26.39 kB/s.
 during this I got two "Tx hung" messages.

Ftp downloads do not works at all, they simply time out or get stuck.

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