MII-less network card support

Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:47:41 -0800

One of the machines I'm on has a 3com 3c940 onboard ethernet using the sk98lin driver. Now, the card apparently has MII support, but the linux driver doesn't support it, not even with either 2.6.10 or the card manufacturer's supplied driver. I know from some googling that it's there on the FreeBSD driver, but effectively it doesn't have one that I can get at. Net result of this is running NetworkManager right now (latest CVS) does the following:

NetworkManager: starting...
NetworkManager: eth0: Driver support level is fully-supported
NetworkManager: SIOCGMIIPHY on eth0 failed: Bad address
NetworkManager: nm_device_new(): waiting for device's worker thread to start.
NetworkManager: nm_device_new(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
NetworkManager: Adding device 'eth0' (wired) to our list.

And then it just sits there and does nothing until I get annoyed and press Ctrl-C. If we have an MII-less link, then we need another way to be able to determine whether it's alive. One option that comes to mind is opening up a raw socket and listening for incoming ethernet frames - if we see one, then the interface is alive..

Unless anyone has any better ideas, I'm going to have a go at this probably over this weekend.

Tom
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