From: Roger Luethi PHYs may come up isolated. Make sure we can send data to them. This code section needs a clean-up, but I prefer to merge this fix in isolation. Report and suggested fix by Tam, Ming Dat (Tommy). Signed-off-by: Roger Luethi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/drivers/net/via-rhine.c | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/net/via-rhine.c~via-rhine-de-isolate-phy drivers/net/via-rhine.c --- 25/drivers/net/via-rhine.c~via-rhine-de-isolate-phy 2004-08-08 13:51:47.971733472 -0700 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/net/via-rhine.c 2004-08-08 13:51:47.975732864 -0700 @@ -896,7 +896,10 @@ static int __devinit rhine_init_one(stru pci_set_drvdata(pdev, dev); { + u16 mii_cmd; int mii_status = mdio_read(dev, phy_id, 1); + mii_cmd = mdio_read(dev, phy_id, MII_BMCR) & ~BMCR_ISOLATE; + mdio_write(dev, phy_id, MII_BMCR, mii_cmd); if (mii_status != 0xffff && mii_status != 0x0000) { rp->mii_if.advertising = mdio_read(dev, phy_id, 4); printk(KERN_INFO "%s: MII PHY found at address " _