[parisc-linux] Interesting network card ...

[Grant Grundler]

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?

yes.

> I found one that sure doesn't, but then 
> again, but my kernel isn't actually new ... (2.4.18-32 packaged)

...a newer kernel would be more interesting.

> 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",

This does sound like a bug (fixed) in the tulip driver relating to
MII initialization. But I'm surprised to see it manifest on a C240.

One should be aware that HP sold 4 different flavors of single port
100BT cards based on tulip chipsets. IIRC, they were:
o PCI "server" 
o GSC (card-mode Dino)
o PCI "workstation"
o PCI V-class only

(and an NIO 100BT also that I don't know anything about).

And each had a different HP-UX driver to go with it (btlan3-6).
Eventually all 4 drivers were merged into one but that's still fairly
recent history.

grant