Linksys PCM200 v2 now works with updated driver and diag.

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.tulip.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> At 12:57 PM -0400 8/2/02, Donald Becker wrote:
> >  > >Could you get me the full name and version of the board?
> >>  well, here's physical ID info, from packaging:
> >>  Model Number: PCM200 ver 2
> >    tulip-diag -eee
> It thinks its a V1.0 card :-)...see below.

Hmmm, I'll leave the name as v3 with the justification that 1+2=3 ;->

> Oh, and interestingly, inserting the card caused one of those 
> infamous spurious interrupts, which I spent a couple hours 

IRQ7?  That's a hardware glitch. 

> >I do want to figure out what register read "locks" the transceiver to
> >one address.
> 
> ok, what do you need to figure that out?  If push comes to shove, I 
> can make the box accessible...

I should be able to track this down on my own.

> EEPROM contents (256 words):
...
> 0x00:  0985 0002 0000 0000 0400 9e5a ec9e 0000  __________Z_____
> 0x08:  0000 0400 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0100  ________________
> 0x10:  ab09 1737 ab09 1737 ffff 0202 0000 804c  __7___7_______L_
> 0x18:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ________________
> 0x20:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ________________
> 0x28:  0040 0060 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  @_`_____________
> 0x30:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ________________
> 0x38:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 f9d4  ________________
...
>   ID block CRC 0x09 (vs. 00).
>    Full contents CRC 0xf9d4 (read as 0xf9d4).

At least they got the CRC right.

> 0xa0:  0313 4943 2053 d104 0213 21ab 0602 2201  __CIS _____!___"
> 0xa8:  0102 2202 0205 9680 0098 0522 0002 f5e1  ___"______"_____
> 0xb0:  2205 0302 1501 0546 4c00 6e69 736b 7379  _"____F__Linksys
> 0xb8:  4500 6874 7265 6146 7473 4920 746e 6765  _EtherFast Integ
> 0xc0:  6172 6574 2064 3031 312f 3030 4320 7261  rated 10/100 Car
> 0xc8:  4264 7375 5020 2043 6143 6472 5028 4d43  dBus PC Card(PCM
> 0xd0:  3032 2930 5600 2e31 0030 ff00 0400 0306  200)_V1.0_______

This definitely isn't the first version Linksys put out.  I'm guessing
that some new guy didn't know to update the CIS entry.

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