- probe for PHYs by checking the BMSR (phy status) register instead
of the vendor ID register.
- fix the autonegotiation routine so that it figures out the autonegotiated
modes correctly.
- add tweaks to support the Olicom OC-2326 now that I've actually had
a chance to test one
o Olicom appears to encode the ethernet address in the EEPROM
in 16-bit chunks in network byte order. If we detect an
Olicom card (based on the PCI vendor ID), byte-swap the station
address accordingly.
XXX The Linux driver does not do this. I find this odd since
the README from the Linux driver indicates that patches to
support the Olicom cards came from somebody at Olicom; you'd
think if anyone would get that right, it'd be them. Regardless,
I accepted the word of the disgnoatic program that came bundled
with the card as gospel and fixed the attach routine to make
the station address match what it says.
o The version of the 2326 card that I got for testing is a
strange beast: the card does not look like the picture on
the box in which it was packed. For one thing, the picture
shows what looks like an external NS 83840A PHY, but the
actual card doesn't have one. The card has a TNETE100APCM
chip, which appears to have not only the usual internal
tlan 10Mbps PHY at MII address 32, but also a 10/100 PHY
at MII address 0. Curiously, this PHY's vendor and device ID
registers always return 0x0000. I suspect that this is
a mutant version of the ThunderLAN chip with 100Mbps support.
This combination behaves a little strangely and required the
following changes:
- The internal PHY has to be enabled in tl_softreset().
- The internal PHY doesn't seem to come to life after
detecting the 100Mbps PHY unless it's reset twice.
- If you want to use 100Mbps modes, you have to isolate
the internal PHY.
- If you want to use 10Mbps modes, you have to un-isolate
the internal PHY.
The latter two changes are handled at the end of tl_init(): if
the PHY vendor ID is 0x0000 (which should not be possible if we
have a real external PHY), then tl_init() forces the internal
PHY's BMCR register to the proper values.
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