Subject: Re: Porting fxp driver to macppc
To: Sanjay Lal <sanjayl@iqmail.net>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/20/2000 01:15:36
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:03:47PM -0800, Sanjay Lal wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:40:46PM -0800, Sanjay Lal wrote:
> > > I was wondering what would be involved in porting the current
> > > fxp driver to macppc.  What are the most common caveats that
> > > one needs to be aware of?
> >
> > What makes you think it doesn't already work?
> 
> I compiled in the driver, and the card is detected during init. The 
> following is the output from dmesg:
> 
> fxp0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/100B Ethernet
> fxp0: interrupting at irq 23
> fxp0: Ethernet address d0:00:0e:b7:76:88
> OUI 0x00aa00 model 0x0015 rev 4 at fxp0 phy 1 not configured

It looks to me like you added the "fxp" driver, but you didn't add
the "inphy" driver, so the fxp driver can't do things like media
selection.  Is that the case, or is something more insidious going
on?

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Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
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