somewhat off topic: ethernet card problem
I guessing my eth card is dead but hoping ;). Sony's support team are
useless and incompetent so I don't bother (tried to contact them on
other problems but they were never able to give anything else then the
template answear).
My eth card stop functioning. Its a realtech 8139 compatible onboard
card on a sony vaio pcg fxa53 (amd athelon 1500+).
when I load the 8139too module the card is recognized properly, I can
configure the ip, ping my self (I know that this short circuits at the
kernel level and thus never reaches the hardware) and try to ping
outside. Depending on what card is on the other side it sometimes
manages to sinc and sometimes not, if it does, it takes a long time and
looking at the tcp dumps for the pings shows that it keeps sending arp
requests and doesn't get any reply.
Trying to look at the registers shows that its stuck on 10mbs half
duplex mode, and the irq count is rising in results to the ping
requests.
I am guessing (or at list hoping) that I need a firmware overwrite and
was wondering if anyone knows how to do this.
Its worth to mention that it is also doesn't function under windows but
I don't know how to get all the output there.
If anyone has any ideas for solving the problem or where better to look
for a solution I'll be grateful.
The MII management registers dump:
rtl8139-diag.c:v2.05 1/28/2002 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a RealTek RTL8139 adapter at 0x1800.
The RTL8139 does not use a MII transceiver.
It does have internal MII-compatible registers:
Basic mode control register 0x1000.
Basic mode status register 0x7809.
Autonegotiation Advertisement 0x01e1.
Link Partner Ability register 0x0000.
Autonegotiation expansion 0x0000.
Disconnects 0x0000.
False carrier sense counter 0x0000.
NWay test register 0x0004.
Receive frame error count 0x0000.
MII PHY #-1 transceiver registers:
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
Basic mode control register 0x0000: Auto-negotiation disabled!
Speed fixed at 10 mbps, half-duplex.
Basic mode status register 0x0000 ... 0000.
Link status: not established.
Capable of <Warning! No media capabilities>.
Unable to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
This transceiver has no vendor identification.
I'm advertising 0000:
Advertising no additional info pages.
Using an unknown (non 802.3) encapsulation.
Link partner capability is 0000:.
Negotiation did not complete.
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