[tulip-bug] Bizarre tulip receive problem

[Gabriele Alberti]

> 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.)

I don't really know what are you talking about..how can I find this info?

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

This:

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tulip-diag.c:v2.15 9/23/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) adapter at 0x1c00.
Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) chip registers at 0x1c00:
 0x00: fff98000 ffffffff ffffffff 0e965000 0e965200 fc664010 ff972113 ffffffff
 0x40: fffe0000 fff597f8 00000000 fffe0000 00000000 00000200 00000000 00000008
 Extended registers:
 0x80: 00664010 03fe7fff a04c0005 5e15ffff 00000000 0e965250 0e965130 ffe0f000
 0xa0: f0000000 2a969000 fffffb19 00000000 40000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
 0xc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
 0xe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 38000027
 Comet duplex is reported in the MII status registers.
 Transmit started, Receive started.
  The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
  The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
  The transmit threshold is 128.
  Comet MAC address registers 2a969000 fffffb19
  Comet multicast filter 0000000040000000.
EEPROM 256 words, 8 address bits.
  Ethernet MAC Station Address 00:90:96:2a:19:fb.
  Default connection type 'Autosense'.
  PCI IDs Vendor 1113 Device 1216  Subsystem 1113 2242
  PCI min_grant 255 max_latency 255.
  CSR18 power-up setting 0xa04c****.
 MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d.
 MII PHY found at address 2, status 0x786d.
 MII PHY found at address 3, status 0x786d.
 MII PHY found at address 4, status 0x786d.
 MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
   1100 786d 001d 2411 05e1 0021 0004 2001
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   1001 0000 24c8 205f 0000 001f 7490 0000
   8111 6946 2c58 1326 8911 0444 0230 0000.
 MII PHY #2 transceiver registers:
   1100 786d 001d 2411 05e1 0021 0004 2001
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   1001 0000 00c8 205f 0000 001f 7490 0000
   8111 6946 2c58 1326 8911 0444 0230 0000.
 MII PHY #3 transceiver registers:
   1100 786d 001d 2411 05e1 0021 0004 2001
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   1001 0000 00c8 205f 0000 001f 7490 0000
   8111 6946 2c58 1326 8911 0444 0230 0000.
 MII PHY #4 transceiver registers:
   1100 786d 001d 2411 05e1 0021 0004 2001
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   1001 0000 00c8 205f 0000 001f 7490 0000
   8111 6946 2c58 1326 8911 0444 0230 0000.
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If you need more info i will give you all the support i can.
I repeat anyway, the card *seem to work* as it would..the only weird thing is ifconfig output.
Thanks a lot
Regards,
	Gabriel