From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 19:11:11 -0700 To: Nahkola Mikko Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Interesting network card ... Message-ID: <20030116021111.GD8543@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <20030115085619.GA17760@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030115085619.GA17760@aurinko.ntc.nokia.com> From: grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com (Grant Grundler) Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:56:20AM +0200, Nahkola Mikko wrote: > What's the deal with the various HP-branded tulip-based NICs? Are they > expected to "just work" or what? yes. > I found one that sure doesn't, but then > again, but my kernel isn't actually new ... (2.4.18-32 packaged) ...a newer kernel would be more interesting. > The card is the HP ANA-6911A/AUI (yes, it's a 10/100BT with coax and > AUI too), part# A3738-60001, and it _is_ found by the tulip driver, but > for some reason the driver claims that "no MII transceiver found", This does sound like a bug (fixed) in the tulip driver relating to MII initialization. But I'm surprised to see it manifest on a C240. One should be aware that HP sold 4 different flavors of single port 100BT cards based on tulip chipsets. IIRC, they were: o PCI "server" o GSC (card-mode Dino) o PCI "workstation" o PCI V-class only (and an NIO 100BT also that I don't know anything about). And each had a different HP-UX driver to go with it (btlan3-6). Eventually all 4 drivers were merged into one but that's still fairly recent history. grant