[parisc-linux] Interesting network card ...

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 10:56:20AM +0200, Nahkola Mikko wrote:
> What's the deal with the various HP-branded tulip-based NICs? Are they 
> expected to "just work" or what? I found one that sure doesn't, but then 
> again, but my kernel isn't actually new ... (2.4.18-32 packaged)

we're always interested in hearing about cards that don't
work.. hp-branded or not ;-)

> The card is the HP ANA-6911A/AUI (yes, it's a 10/100BT with coax and 
> AUI too), part# A3738-60001, and it _is_ found by the tulip driver, but 
> for some reason the driver claims that "no MII transceiver found", and 
> does list the 10B2 and AUI connections too. But I can't seem to make it 
> form a link with TP or coax, no matter what I do. And the AUI connector 
> is blocked by the C240 chassis. Is there a simple way to force the use of 
> a certain transceiver? Tried mii-tool already and it didn't help much - 
> but then again it doesn't seem to know about the coax and AUI at all...

how very interesting.  could you send an lspci -vvx for that card?

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