[vortex-bug] Problems with 3c920, vortex and a 10baseT only router

[Melchor Marín]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Donald Becker wrote:

>OK, try loading the driver with a higher debug level, or setting a higher
message level with mii-diag eth0 --msg-level 0xff

[root@Quevedo mamarin]# mii-diag eth0 --msg-level 0xff
Basic registers of MII PHY #24:  3000 782d 0041 6800 05e1 0021 0004 2001.
 Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
 Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat  (no autonegotiation).
   End of basic transceiver information.

[root@Quevedo mamarin]# mii-diag --watch
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
Basic registers of MII PHY #24:  3000 782d 0041 6800 05e1 0021 0004 2001.
 Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 You have link beat, and everything is working OK.
 Your link partner is generating 10baseT link beat  (no autonegotiation).
   End of basic transceiver information.

Monitoring the MII transceiver status.
22:39:51.169  Baseline value of MII BMSR (basic mode status register) is
782d.



The same situation. I have sent more than 100 packets to the router, and I
lose more that 60% of them.