Re: No link beat?
Martijn van Oosterhout (s3100411@student.anu.edu.au)
Tue, 06 Jul 1999 00:37:37 +1000
>I got two DEC 21140 based cards yesterday, and they work well enough
>with my a crossover RJ45 cable. However I get problems if one of the
>PCs is turned off.
>
>The startup messages:
>
>Jul 4 22:13:28 nemesis kernel: tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
>Jul 4 22:13:28 nemesis kernel: eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0xf600, 00 00 e8 2b ba 28, IRQ 11.
>Jul 4 22:13:28 nemesis kernel: eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
>Jul 4 22:13:28 nemesis kernel: eth0: Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
>Jul 4 22:13:28 nemesis kernel: eth0: Index #1 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
>Jul 4 22:13:28 nemesis kernel: eth0: Index #2 - Media 10baseT-FD (#4) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
>Jul 4 22:13:28 nemesis kernel: eth0: Index #3 - Media 100baseTx-FD (#5) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
>Jul 4 22:13:28 nemesis kernel: eth0: MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 3100 status 7809.
I get this too. AFAIK you can't turn it off. However, since
it is a totally useless message, I simply edit my kernel source
and comment out the printk() statement that is printing it.
Simple.
HTH,
Martijn van Oosterhout
Australia
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