Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:41:08 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] de2104x: disable autonegotiation on broken hardware | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 23:18:08 +0200
> On Thursday 23 September 2010 23:03:13 Jeff Garzik wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> > wrote: >> > At least on older 21041-AA chips (mine is rev. 11), TP duplex >> > autonegotiation causes the card not to work at all (link is up but no >> > packets are transmitted). >> > >> > de4x5 disables autonegotiation completely. But it seems to work on newer >> > (21041-PA rev. 21) so disable it only on rev<20 chips. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> ... >> Interesting... I never knew about that quirk. > > This errata document says that autonegotiation is somehow broken but it does > not specify it further: > http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/ftp/pub/os/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/ec-qd2ma-te.ps.gz
Applied, thanks guys!
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