Tulip card in PPC

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Randy Carpenter wrote:

> > > If you have a true Digital card try the de4x5.c driver.  That driver was 
> > > originally written for the Digital cards only.  Also try upgrading to
> > > 0.89I

Get the 2.1.115 linux-pmac kernel from ftp.samba.anu.edu.au/ ... I have a
G3 at work that wouldn't work with with the Apple fast ether card (21040)
until I tried the new kernel and the de4x5 driver.

The tulip driver locked the machine when I tried to load it :-/

> Hmm.. I have an apple comm-slot II ethernet card in a Powermac 6500,
> running LinuxPPC.  It has a 21041 (In fact it is the exact same chip as is
> on my SMC EtherPower card) The only driver I can get to work is the de4x5
> driver, which will lock up if you try to ftp or nfs any significant amount
> of data.  The tulip driver justs locks the entire machine when loaded... 
> This is the driver that comes with 2.1.103 kernel.  Is there any better
> support for PPC in the latest tulip drivers? 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -Randy
> 

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