Re: [9fans] VIA Rhine II mii problems

["Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@gmail.com>]

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.

Stefan

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 3:10 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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