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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] VIA Rhine II mii problems
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:10:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <165a6b9d60bce2dd5cce90c5f18c1069@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbd9d3990804190048t2eae69f5n41375972b8bcdc07@mail.gmail.com>

i don't have this part (that i know of) and the datasheet didn't
immediately pop up, but the linux driver hardcodes the phy_id to 1.
the part you have claims to have an integrated phy.

you may wish to try that.

- erik

p.s. lspci -n will give you vid/did numbers.

> Hi,
> I just installed Plan 9 on a machine using a VIA Rhine II NIC.
> Unfortunately the driver is not successfully initializing the device.
>
> Placing print statements in ethervt6102.c shows that vt6102reset() is
> failing when mii() returns an empty PHY mask.  The mii() function is
> probing each PHY from 0 to 31, but always finds that oui == 0.  It
> never finds a PHY.
>
> Any hints?  I understand the high-level details but don't have the
> knowledge to do anything other than poke around blindly now.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-19 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-19  7:48 Stefan Hajnoczi
2008-04-19 14:10 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2008-04-19 16:12   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2008-04-19 16:36     ` Harri Haataja
2008-04-19 17:16       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2008-04-20 16:03         ` erik quanstrom

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