Unable to set media type and duplex with 3c59x.o driver and a 3c595 card

I've been unable to get my 3c595 card to use 100baseTx-FD. I have attempted
to force this with the mii-tool using

mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0

or by loading the module and specifying that speed. I loaded the module
with the following

insmod 3c59x debug=6 options=4,4,4 full_duplex=1,1,1

Here is some relevant output from my system that may help to determine what
the exact problem is.

lspci shows
host root # lspci |grep Ethernet
04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev
08)
04:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c595 100BaseTX [Vortex]

host root # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:694 errors:86 dropped:86 overruns:0 frame:129
TX packets:93 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:184429 (180.1 Kb) TX bytes:5580 (5.4 Kb)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0x5840

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:60045 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:130
TX packets:16560 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:34952221 (33.3 Mb) TX bytes:1414901 (1.3 Mb)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x3000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10956 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10956 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1066793 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:1066793 (1.0 Mb)

host root # mii-tool
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
eth1: 100 Mbit, full duplex, link ok

I changed the HWaddr and IP since they are not important to this discussion.

I also see the following output in /var/log/messages

Aug 17 01:37:46 host Receiving packet size 60 status 003c.
Aug 17 01:37:46 host eth0: exiting interrupt, status 8000.
Aug 17 01:37:46 host eth0: interrupt, status 8011, latency 2 ticks.
Aug 17 01:37:46 host eth0: In interrupt loop, status 8011.
Aug 17 01:37:46 host vortex_rx(): status 8011, rx_status 4040.
Aug 17 01:37:46 host Rx error: status 8c.

root # cat /proc/net/dev
Inter-| Receive | Transmit
face |bytes packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
lo: 1067342 10960 0 0 0 0 0 0 1067342
10960 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth1:35583568 61213 0 0 0 130 0 0 1440637
16912 0 0 0 0 0 0
eth0: 196293 846 105 105 0 160 0 0 6732
107 0 0 0 0 0 0

I haven't been able to find any way of getting this card to work. I've made
sure that the cables are seated correctly and I'm using a 3com 10/100
Switch with autonegotiation enabled. I've even forced the speed/duplexity
on the switch with no luck.

I'm hoping someone may have a better answer to this problem.

John

In article <1lF%a.91090$_(E-Mail Removed)> , J wrote:
> I've been unable to get my 3c595 card to use 100baseTx-FD. I have attempted
>[snip]
> host root # mii-tool
> eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok

Try the -v for more information.

> I also see the following output in /var/log/messages

I assume you have already Googled for this. ISTM that autonegotiation
fails, so the driver falls back to the safest default.

> I'm hoping someone may have a better answer to this problem.

Have you done something wacky with your kernel configuration? Try using
your distro's kernel and modules. If you ARE using a distro kernel and
Google turned up empty, this would be an issue to take to the driver's
maintainer, or a more specialised forum if it exists.
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