Re: The Mini-PCI again

   From: Donald Becker <[email protected]>
   Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 17:19:09 -0400 (EDT)

   On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Scott L. Burson wrote:

   > I have a mini-PCI card in my Inspiron 8100, which had the symptom you've
   > seen before, that with the kernel driver it was necessary to boot Windows
   > first to initialize the card.  I tried your driver, but without success.

   What driver version did you try?

0.99Y.

   What is the detection message?

Jun 17 14:57:54 osiris kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99Y 12/16/2002 Donald Becker, [email protected]
Jun 17 14:57:54 osiris kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Jun 17 14:57:54 osiris kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c1556B-5 mini-PCI at 0xe800,  00:04:76:4d:d7:b8, IRQ 10
Jun 17 14:57:54 osiris kernel:   8K buffer 5:3 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.
Jun 17 14:57:54 osiris kernel:   MII transceiver found at address 0, status 786d.
Jun 17 14:57:54 osiris kernel:   Using bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.

So the driver correctly identifies the card -- no change in PCI ID.

Oh, this is interesting.  Having booted with the modified kernel driver, I
switched to your driver to get the detection message, and it works now.  So
it appears that there's still some subtlety about getting the card into the
right state -- which the kernel driver might even be doing accidentally.

I enclose `vortex-diag' output that reflects the current state (booted with
modified kernel driver, switched to yours).  I do see differences from the
second `vortex-diag' dump in my previous message, but I don't know which
ones might be significant.

-- Scott

vortex-diag.c:v2.14 12/28/2002 Donald Becker ([email protected])
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a 3c566 Laptop Tornado adapter at 0xe800.
 Station address 00:04:76:4d:d7:b8.
  Receive mode is 0x15: Normal unicast and hashed multicast.
The Vortex chip may be active, so FIFO registers will not be read.
To see all register values use the '-f' flag.
Initial window 7, registers values by window:
  Window 0: 0900 0000 e720 0000 0000 01f5 00aa 0000.
  Window 1: FIFO FIFO 0700 0000 0000 007f 0000 2000.
  Window 2: 0400 4d76 b8d7 0000 0000 0000 0010 4000.
  Window 3: 0040 0080 05ea 0000 0040 1000 0800 6000.
  Window 4: 0000 0000 0000 0cd0 0003 8800 0000 8000.
  Window 5: 1ffc 0000 0000 0600 0815 06de 06c6 a000.
  Window 6: 0000 0000 0000 6d01 0100 57ca 0000 c000.
  Window 7: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 e000.
Vortex chip registers at 0xe800
  0xE810: **FIFO** 00000000 00000004 *STATUS*
  0xE820: 00000020 0402aa40 00080000 00001404
  0xE830: 00000000 3152ceae 0402a8d0 00080004
  0xE840: 0032fea1 00000000 000000b7 00000000
  0xE850: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
  0xE860: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
  0xE870: 00001800 00000000 00000000 00000000
 Indication enable is 06c6, interrupt enable is 06de.
 No interrupt sources are pending.
 Transceiver/media interfaces available:  MII.
Transceiver type in use:  Autonegotiate.
 MAC settings: half-duplex.
 Station address set to 00:04:76:4d:d7:b8.
 Configuration options 0010.
EEPROM format 64x16, configuration table at offset 0x30:
    00: 2978 6056 0040 8060 0040 0000 0000 0080
  0x08: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0x10: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 10b7 6556
  0x18: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0a0a
  0x20: ff29 2829 0008 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0x28: 0000 ff01 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
  0x30: 0004 764d d7b8 6056 0061 0009 0000 6d50
  0x38: 2970 0009 0004 764d d7b8 0010 0000 00aa

 The word-wide EEPROM checksum is 0x45f5.
Saved EEPROM settings of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang:
 The CardBus product ID is 2978 6056.
 3Com Node Address 00:04:76:4D:D7:B8 (used as a unique ID only).
 OEM Station address 00:04:76:4D:D7:B8 (used as the ethernet address).
  Device ID 6056,  Manufacturer ID 6d50.
  Manufacture date (MM/DD/YYYY) 3/1/2000, division 	, product 
  No BIOS ROM is present.
 Transceiver selection: 10baseT.
   Options: negotiated duplex, link beat required.
  Vortex format checksum is incorrect (89 vs. 00).
  Cyclone format checksum is incorrect (0x89 vs. 00).
  Hurricane format checksum is incorrect (0x89 vs. 00).
 MII PHY found at address 0, status 786d.
 MII PHY 0 at #0 transceiver registers:
   3000 786d 0022 561b 01e1 0021 0004 2001
   ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
   01c0 0001 0190 8020 4f02 0304 0026 2212
   0000 d7bf 0000 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff.
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