On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, David Karlin wrote:
> Hi,
> I get a similar message when I boot the system with no ethernet cable
> connected to the ethercard, no matter which card. BTW, I have the
> same card running in a '386 slink box. No problems.
Just thought i'd throw in a word. My card (a "3Com 3c905B Cyclone
100baseTx" according to the boot message) gives the same output whether or
not there's a cable plugged in. Maybe it depends on the brand?
In particular, it says:
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0x6400, 00:10:4b:70:85:5d, IRQ 10
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849.
MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7849.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Now, if only i could get dhcpcd (version 1.3.17pl2-1 from potato) to not
wait two minutes on boot when the cord isn't in without completely
disabling it...
