Subject: Re: 3.0_BETA: xi* and setting media types
To: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@thundrix.ch>
From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/04/2005 17:45:01
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 02:04:36AM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:
> Salut,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:14:35PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 06:16:48PM +0200, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Ok, it seems that the icsphy has stopped attaching to xi0. Any ideas why
> > > that could be?
> > > 
> > > Am I talking to myself? ;)
> > 
> > A dmesg would help understanding what's going on
> 
> My dmesg is basically identical with the one posted by Nicolas Joly. I
> don't have that laptop here right now, but it was basically:
> 
>  * 2.0:
>    - xi0 at pci
>    - icsphy at xi0's mii
>    - card works when one forces 10baseT, otherwise it times out
> 
>  * 3.0_BETA:
>    - xirc0 at pci
>    - xi0 at xirc0
>    - _NO_ phy whatsoever
>    - card doesn't work even when forced into 10baseT
>    - 10baseT had to be reimplemented, otherwise you get EINVAL when trying
>      to change the media type
> 
> I'm not sure where the icsphy went. It's not disabled in the config.

Same here, the card works fine with 1.6.2 and 2.0.2, but not with 3.0
or -current. I tracked it down to the new xirc frontend, and was not
to make it work since.

I'll try to compare the 2 versions in the next few days.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.