Macronix MX98713A

David Schwartz davids@webmaster.com
Wed Nov 4 17:33:56 1998


> I have a pair of SOHOware/NDC cards based on the Macronix
> MX98713A chip set.
> According to the company that sold them, the tulip.c driver
> should work.  When I
> actually try to use it however, the card gets turned off (no
> lights on the hub
> or card) once the card is detected.  I was wondering if this is a
> known bug and
> if there are plans to fix it (and if so, how soon :)).

	I have quite a few of these cards and have had the absolute worst luck
getting them to work in Linux. That is, until just recently. Version 0.90 of
the tulip driver seems to _finally_ make them work perfectly on my test
machines. Go get it, you'll be glad you did.

	DS