Subject: Re: 100baseT ethernet card questions
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: None <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: current-users
Date: 12/08/1998 20:11:50
thorpej@nas.nasa.gov said:
> Unfortunately, the NetBSD Tulip driver doesn't use the generic MII
> layer; it has its own. Looks like converting it might be Annoying,
> too, since the MII autonegotiation sequence is (needlessly) interwoven
> with the transmit logic :-/
It's probably even worse with the '143's own autonegotiation
registers where the advertisement bits are overlayed with
bits for actual settings. Not only that autonegotiation does
not work, full-duplex doesn't either. (I once found the bit
to set, but it was impossible to get into the driver's
structures.)
best regards
Matthias