AW: [vortex] Slow connection in local domain

[Donald Becker]

I seem to have let out a bogus version of mii-diag!


On Fri, 18 May 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Suikat, Reiner" wrote:
> > mii-diag -v
> > mii-diag.c:v2.01a 5/15/2001 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)

Note that this is a very new version.
I didn't realize that I had copied this version to the FTP site -- it
must have been picked up with some of the other updates.
This version was intended only for internal testing.

> >  http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> >  MII PHY #24 transceiver registers:
> >    3000 782d 0040 6174 05e1 0021 0000 0000

This is normal -- you have sensed a 10baseT (implicitly half duplex)
connection.

> > The autonegotiated capability is 0000.

Hmmm, obviously bogus.  As are all of the following conclusions.

> > No common media type was autonegotiated!
> > This is extremely unusual and typically indicates a configuration error.
> > Perhaps the advertised capability set was intentionally limited.
> >  Basic mode control register 0x6d64: Auto-negotiation disabled, with
> >  Speed fixed at 100 mbps, full-duplex.
> >   Transceiver isolated from the MII!
> >   Transceiver powered down!
> >   Transceiver in loopback mode!
> >  Basic mode status register 0x4001 ... 782d.
> >    Link status: previously broken, but now reestablished.
> >    This transceiver is capable of  100baseTx-FD.
> >    Unable to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
> >  Your link partner advertised 4001:.

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