[tulip-bug] SMC1255TX/LP Problem - TX errors and Carrier errors X2

Juhan Ernits juhan@cc.ioc.ee
Thu Aug 22 02:00:01 2002


On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Denny Fox wrote:

> The EN5251 chip is not in the tulip.c:v0.95 6/21/2002 driver at all. I
> don't have the capability to merge the changes myself.
> 
> I hope that someone can update the current tulip driver and support
> the SMC1255TX with the EN5251 chip under 2.2.x kernels.

You did try the driver from http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html ?
According to my experience (with a dozen of  SMC1255TX) that one works
(and it does recognize the card as AdmTek Comet, which is appropriate as
that should be the chip on the card if SMC hasn't changed anything
lately). Besides, with more recent 2.4 kernels (e.g. 2.4.18), you get the
support built in. 

Regards,

Juhan Ernits