From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262596AbTJXUXx (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:23:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262592AbTJXUXx (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:23:53 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:30130 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262109AbTJXUXu (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:23:50 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:24:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tom Rini Cc: nico-kernel@schottelius.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 3c59x problem with 2.4.6-test[34] Message-Id: <20031024132403.2d574e3f.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031024195243.GB985@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> References: <20030907212348.GA836@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> <20030929151827.GB862@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> <20031015183505.GA963@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> <20031017235325.GA957@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> <20031018122708.GA401@schottelius.org> <20031018041448.6362faee.akpm@osdl.org> <20031024193402.GA985@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> <20031024124356.212fc590.akpm@osdl.org> <20031024195243.GB985@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tom Rini wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:43:56PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Tom Rini wrote: > > > > > > Okay. First an odd part. When the card does not work, I didn't get > > > anything in the syslog with debug=7, but I did get plenty when it works. > > > > Well that's a big hint. If no debug output comes out then the driver > > simply isn't being executed. You'll need to investigate and report on this > > further. Make sure that you've set `dmesg -n 7' of course... > > >From the original message, something is happening: > Sep 6 18:13:57 opus kernel: 0000:00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe480. Vers LK1.1.19 > Sep 6 18:13:57 opus vmunix: ***WARNING*** No MII transceivers found! > Oh, OK, I didn't look at your initial message closely enough. Every register is coming up with 0xff, so the NIC isn't powered up. There have been a couple of reports of this. I don't know why this has changed from 2.4. Suggest you try disabling (or enabling) ACPI, and see if there are any BIOS settings which might affect this.