From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] de2104x: disable autonegotiation on broken hardware Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:41:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100924.224108.02278517.davem@davemloft.net> References: <201009232259.20261.linux@rainbow-software.org> <201009232318.11541.linux@rainbow-software.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: linux@rainbow-software.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:52893 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754213Ab0IYFks (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:40:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201009232318.11541.linux@rainbow-software.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ondrej Zary Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:18:08 +0200 > On Thursday 23 September 2010 23:03:13 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Ondrej Zary > wrote: >> > At least on older 21041-AA chips (mine is rev. 11), TP duplex >> > autonegotiation causes the card not to work at all (link is up but no >> > packets are transmitted). >> > >> > de4x5 disables autonegotiation completely. But it seems to work on newer >> > (21041-PA rev. 21) so disable it only on rev<20 chips. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary ... >> Interesting... I never knew about that quirk. > > This errata document says that autonegotiation is somehow broken but it does > not specify it further: > http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/ftp/pub/os/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/ec-qd2ma-te.ps.gz Applied, thanks guys!