Re: [9fans] VIA Rhine II mii problems

["Harri Haataja" <realblades@gmail.com>]

On 19/04/2008, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> I initialised the mii struct to use phy 1, as mii() would have if it
>  had succeeded.  Unfortunately running ip/ipconfig simply sat there,
>  running it with the debug flag showed recv timeouts.  I could not see
>  any packets on the network.

On the slight chance that this is useful, I have never seen a VIA chip
that worked reliably (never tried their processors, though).
Especially the Rhine based pci cards my then employer once had would
periodically freeze and require a full power cycle before they'd work
for a while again if at all. This happened under several windows
versions on PC, Linux, possibly some BSD. Varied drivers and other
hardware anyway. We quickly decided it wasn't worth even trying and
went with another chip since eth cards aren't hugely expensive.

Finns can also cheerfully call anything with a VIA chip "viallinen",
which literally meens "something with via" while being a word meaning
"defective". It's pretty much true on both counts.

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