Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm2: D-Link DUB-E100 Rev. B broken

[David Hollis]

On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 20:41 +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> Hi,
> D-Link DUB-E100 Rev. B USB Ethernet adapters have worked ok in some recent 
> kernels - in rc2-mm2, they're broken again; they're detected correctly and 
> the asix module is autoloaded, but after "ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.15 netmask 
> 255.255.255.0", the box becomes unresponsive and keeps repeating
> 
> eth0: Failed to enable software MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable hardware MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable software MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable hardware MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable software MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable hardware MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable software MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable hardware MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable software MII access
> eth0: Failed to enable hardware MII access
> eth0: Failed to write Medium Mode to 0x0334: ffffff92

Hmm, the only change that you may not have is to wrap the MII calls with
a Mutex, though that isn't likely the culprit here (even though the
message is talking about MII access).  Could you enable the DEBUG define
at the top of the driver and see what kind of output you get in dmesg?

-- 
David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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