Xircom CardBus RBE-100 "No MII transceiver found"

Xircom CardBus RBE-100 "No MII transceiver found"

[Federico Sevilla III]

Hi everyone,

I'm using 2.4.8-pre3, with pcmcia-cs 3.1.27 (no pcmcia modules from the
pcmcia package, all from the kernel). I have support for CardBus built in.
I've tried compiling support for my Xircom CardBus RBE-100 into the kernel
and as a module. It just won't work. On both occasions dmesg shows
something like this:

cs: cb_alloc(bus 5): vendor 0x115d, device 0x0003
PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(1000-fff) for 05:00.0
  got res[11000000:110007ff] for resource 1 of PCI device 115d:0003
  got res[11000800:11000fff] for resource 2 of PCI device 115d:0003
  got res[10c00000:10c03fff] for resource 1 of PCI device 115d:0003
PCI: Enabling device 05:00.00 (0000 -> 0003)
tulip_attach(05:00.0)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 05:00.0 to 64
xircom_tulip_cb.c:v0.91 4/14/99 becker@scyld.com (modified by danilo@cs.uni-magdeburg.de for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford)
xircom(05:00.0): ***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found!
eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatible mode) rev 3 at 0x1000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, IRQ 9.

I've got an Acer Extensa 503T, which has an O2Micro controller.

The link does not go up at all, the lights on the switch I'm connected to
and on the NIC itself remain turned off. I would love to test going on
PROMISC mode as I hear that may fix things, but I can't get the link up.
Forcing eth0 up by doing an "ifconfig eth0 up" then "dhclient eth0" won't
work.

$ cardctl status
Socket 0:
  no card
Socket 1:
  3.3V CardBus card
  function 0: [ready]

$ cardctl ident 1
  product info: "Xircom", "CardBus Ethernet II 10/100", "CBEII-10/100", "1.03"
  manfid: 0x0105, 0x0103
  function: 6 (network)

I hope someone can either tell me straight out that this is not a support
Xircom card (I'm under the impression that somehow it is, although I
really can't get it to work), or can help me fix things.

I apologize if this is rather newbieish for this list.

Thanks in advance!

 --> Jijo

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Re: Xircom CardBus RBE-100 "No MII transceiver found"

[Ion Badulescu]

Hi Federico,

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 00:16:23 +0800 (PHT), Federico Sevilla III <jijo@leathercollection.ph> wrote:

> I'm using 2.4.8-pre3, with pcmcia-cs 3.1.27 (no pcmcia modules from the
> pcmcia package, all from the kernel). I have support for CardBus built in.
> I've tried compiling support for my Xircom CardBus RBE-100 into the kernel
> and as a module. It just won't work. 

I was the last one doing work on the xircom_tulip_cb driver, although none
of the changes that got into 2.4.7 should affect the driver's behavior. I
only removed dead code...

Anyway, can you try a 2.4.6 kernel (which doesn't have my changes), and see
if the card works?

> cs: cb_alloc(bus 5): vendor 0x115d, device 0x0003
> PCI: Failed to allocate resource 0(1000-fff) for 05:00.0

The above sounds like the real trouble. Can you run a 'lspci -vv' and
mail the section corresponding to the 05:00.0 device to the list?

> xircom_tulip_cb.c:v0.91 4/14/99 becker@scyld.com (modified by danilo@cs.uni-magdeburg.de for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford)
> xircom(05:00.0): ***WARNING***: No MII transceiver found!
> eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatible mode) rev 3 at 0x1000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, IRQ 9.

We really can't talk to the card, which is not very surprising considering
that the PCI resource 0 couldn't be allocated. 

Thanks,
Ion

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