[tulip-bug] Bizarre tulip receive problem

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Gabriele Alberti wrote:
> Well, the scyld.com driver doesn't work neither.
> dmesg:
> --------------------
> tulip.c:v0.95b 8/2/2002  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> eth0: Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) rev 17 at 0xcf832c00, 00:90:96:2A:19:FB, IRQ 11.
> eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7869 advertising 05e1.
> eth0:  MII transceiver #2 config 1100 status 786d advertising 05e1.

OK, this I can work with.
The first transceiver is reporting no link beat.
The rest are report valid link beat.

Does the board claim to support HomePNA "HPNA"?  (Some ADMtek chips do.)

What does 'tulip-diag -aaemmf' report after trying to send a few packets
with this driver?

> ------------------------------------
> but after that, i get the usual ifconfig output with 0 TX packets
> -----------------------------------------
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:2A:19:FB  
>           RX packets:136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:142 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:284

This usually means that the chip has the wrong transceiver selected.

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