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Hi,

I am working on a driver for the Am79C970 Ethernet controller in VirtualBox. I have managed to receive interrupts for the completion of initialization and for transmit, but the transmits always come back with errors. The status register has CERR (Collision Error) set and the transmit descriptor has LCAR (Loss of Carrier) set. To me this sounds like the controller believes something has gone wrong with the physical link, but this is virtual hardware so that seems dubious. Any suggestions on what might be going wrong?

Thanks, Ryan

I'm not familiar with the internals of the device in question, but a few generic things come to mind that you may or may not have checked yet:

1) Have you actually configured the emulated NIC in the settings of the VM (so that it's actually connected), and have you successfully gotten a linux livecd to have working internet to eliminate that option?

2) Are the signals actually inverted in meaning (i.e. 1 is good and 0 is bad)?

3) Are there hardware registers that are relevant for transmission or reception that you haven't touched yet, and do all registers have otherwise acceptable values?