David Hollis wrote: >> To rule out the possibility of the nic being defective, I connected the >> USB nic to a windows computer. There it works, although the ethernet >> connection is a bit flaky (just like it seems...). >> >> Then I did a diff on the respective kernel sources of 2.6.20.3 and >> 2.6.22-rc2 (asix.c and usbnet.c), I found a few changes, but they do not >> seem to be related to my problem. >> >> I am the and of my repertoire here, can anyone please do some >> suggestions for further testing or even better, fix it ;-) > > You wouldn't happen to know what PHY that device is using? The AX88178 > (Gigabit USB Ethernet) support in the driver currently only supports the > Marvell PHY, which is the only one I've actually encountered to-date. > If you can rebuild the driver from your kernel sources but with DEBUG > enabled (uncomment it at the top of asix.c)
No problem, I will do it on sunday. No need to build the driver out-of-tree btw. > After you build the module, load it with insmod ./asix.ko, plug in your > device and send me the dmesg output. I'm particularly interested in the > PHYID=0x12345678 line. That will tell me what PHY chip is being used in > that device and if I need to add support for it. Will do. Thanks! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
