[tulip-bug] Digital DS21143

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Dieter Heimann wrote:

> > > Feb  5 19:43:48 laptop kernel: eth0: Comet link status 0000 partner
> > > capability 0000...
> > 
> > This is a little curious.  What does 'mii-diag' report?
> mii-diag eth0:
> 
> Basic registers of MII PHY #1:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 ffff.

Hmmm, that's a blank transceiver report.  Ignore the text output.
This is mostly harmless on the Centaur, but I would like to track this
down.  What is the exact detection message now?

> But the Tranciever LED says 100 mbs?
> 
> tulip-diag -p 0x800 -t ADMtek AL985 Centaur-C:

Note: -t takes a numeric argument.


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