On 29 Jul 2002, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > First, the T20's onboard Ethernet card is a 3com 5c556B, which the > pxegrub network drivers do not support. But by comparing the Linux > 3c59x driver with the GRUB 3c50x driver, I was able to patch the > latter to work on the T20. What PCI ID and version number does the T20's 556B report? (Use 'lspci -n'.) There are several versions, with different requirements for turning on the transceiver power. > The real problem happens when I then try to start the network in > Linux. When I load the Linux 3c59x driver, it (correctly) probes the > card as a 3c556B, but then prints this warning: ... > ***WARNING*** No MII transceivers found! > > All attempts to access the network fail, printing messages like these: > > eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! Status=0xffff The card was not enabled. Try the driver at http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/3c59x.c ________________ mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/ cd /tmp/netdrivers/ ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz make make install ________________ -- Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
