26 Aug
2008
26 Aug
'08
9:34 p.m.
Hello Grant!
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 12:12 -0700, Grant Erickson wrote:
Are ports 8/9 truly "unmanaged" or are they like ports 4/5 on the M88E6061 in which the ports have MDIO/MII interfaces but do not follow IEEE register conventions?
If the former, then I think it is better to just pull the speed and duplex settings from the switch and pass them up to the 4xx Ethernet driver. In my situation, I did as shown below. It is likely more invasive than your approach; however, it ensures that software follows what the hardware is strapped to.
Yes! It's possible to determine the speed and duplex mode (it's even possible to set the duplex mode, speed is read only).
I'll test that tomorrow.
Thanks a lot, Wolfgang