Re: No Network after Compiling,2.4.19-pre8 under Debian Woody(Long Message)

Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-16T09:23:23Z

On 16 May 2002 07:05, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le jeu 16/05/2002 ? 13:20, Denis Vlasenko a ?crit :
> > On 15 May 2002 14:38, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > > Yes, it works at 10Mbit. But the driver doesn't do speed negociation,
> > > it doesn't even see the MII registers. However I think RTL8139 cards
> > > have MII registers. I quickly looked at the source but didn't see
> > > anything special.
> >
> > Becker's diag utils say there is *no* MII in RTL8139, just something
> > vaguely resembling that. I have trouble persuading 8139 to work in
> > 100mbit fdx, it insists on half duplex. :-(
>
> How do you do this ? Mine only accepts 10Mbits ...
> I tried with mii-diad and with rtl8139-diag.

Tried too, rtl8139-diag set my nic to 10mbit and I could not boot
with NFS root anymore. 8-]. Brought DOS-based conf utility and
used it.

> rtl8139-diag shows "internal MII-compatible registers", then "Link
> Partner Ability register 0x40a1" (seems what I want), but then "I'm
> advertising 0000" and "Link partner capability is 0000".
> I'm lost.

Donald Becker's utils, while definitely useful, aren't very pretty.
For example, one needs to read source to learn switches.
Are they maintained?
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