Don Fry wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:30:22PM +0100, Seewer Philippe wrote:
Basic result: Works perfectly (exceptions see below) out of the box
Problem 1: During probe1, lp->options is silently overwritten with
PCNET32_PORT_MII. Even setting the statement to lp->options |= doesn't
help mutch, the eeprom defaults of the card are used always.
The options are ignored for multi-phy cards. The option might be valid
for the fiber port, but not what you want for the copper port, for
example. If you have a better suggestion I would be very interrested.
Perhaps the defaults should only be used if no parameters are set.
I've been fiddling with the code a bit to see wether i could configure
all connected phys according to module parameters but can't get it to
work. Any suggestions how to tackle this?
Problem 2: Switching only works if the cards eeprom is programmed to use
the fiber port as default. Otherwise the fiber port is seen (output says
yes, i've got two phys) but not used.
I am very ignorant of the eeprom settings, so I probably missed many
things in my testing. When I was playing around with the interfaces, I
would bring up the interface, unplug one cable and plug in the other.
I also used ethtool to force full and half duplex and speed, to see how
the interface would behave.
What do you use to display/change the eeprom settings of a card?
Allied Telesyn provides a dos tool (dxdiag.exe) with which
eeprom-settings can be changed (including default port and speed/duplex)
If the fiber card was just seen but not used, what did the registers of
the card contain?
Which registers are you interested in?
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