Re: Further on P4R800-VM and 3c59x

Andrej Prsa <[email protected]> Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:35:30 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Organization Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

> So now I think that Donald was right and we need to actively do
> something as opposed to just not disturb the power-on state with a
> reset. But how to find what to do in this case is much harder...

Please tell me if I can help in any way! :)

> Hmm, another thing that I just realized, but it's just a stab in the
> dark:  you've never tried to reset the transceiver after everything was
> up.  Please run "mii-diag -R eth0"  after the interface is configured
> (after insmod and ifconfig) and see if something changes; you need to
> wait up to 1 minute for the driver to catch up with any changes in the
> autonegotiation, so just keep sending packets for more than a minute 
> after you run "mii-diag" :-)

I tried but still same old; I tried pinging before, pinging after, pinging
throughout, nothing changed. tcpdump both on the desktop and the laptop
still shows that receiving works, but transmitting doesn't.

Thanks,

Andrej
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