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by **Hartgeor** » Mon, 10 Jan 2000 04:00:00

Hi,

Fairly new to linux and I am having trouble setting up a network via ethernet.
I suspect it is due to a eth0 warning I recieve when I boot up When the
kernel boots up I get the following:

epic100.c:v1.04 8/23/9* Donald Becker
eth0: SMC EPIC/100 at 0xda00, IRQ 12, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
eth0: ***WARNING*** No MII transceiver found!

I was hoping someone could explain to me what this warning means so I can
determine if it is the cause of my networking problems.

(I have a EtherPower II SMC9432TX Ethernet card.)

Thank you,

George Hart
San Diego

by **Malwar** » Mon, 10 Jan 2000 04:00:00

Hi George,

> Hi,

> Fairly new to linux and I am having trouble setting up a network via ethernet.
> I suspect it is due to a eth0 warning I recieve when I boot up When the
> kernel boots up I get the following:

> epic100.c:v1.04 8/23/9* Donald Becker
> eth0: SMC EPIC/100 at 0xda00, IRQ 12, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> eth0: ***WARNING*** No MII transceiver found!

> I was hoping someone could explain to me what this warning means so I can
> determine if it is the cause of my networking problems.

> (I have a EtherPower II SMC9432TX Ethernet card.)

Seems the driver does have a serious problem with detecting the card.
Even the ehternet address does not look very nice. The driver however
should be intended for this card. Maybe you find some information about
the problem (or a later version of the driver) on
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/epic100.html

Malware

by **Carles Arjon** » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00

> epic100.c:v1.04 8/23/9* Donald Becker
> eth0: SMC EPIC/100 at 0xda00, IRQ 12, ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> eth0: ***WARNING*** No MII transceiver found!

> (I have a EtherPower II SMC9432TX Ethernet card.)

Is your NIC a 10 Mbps one? Some time ago i received this reply by Donald
Becker:

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> The vortex-diag tool ('vortex-diag -m') reports:

> "Found a 3Com PCI Ethernet 3c900 rev 0 at 0x6400.
> ***WARNING***: No MII transceivers found!"

This is normal with a 10mbps-only board -- the MII transceiver only
exists on the 100mbps 3c905 board.
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What does eth0 warning 'no MII transceiver' mean?

What does eth0 warning 'no MII transceiver' mean?