Tulip with Kernel 2.2?

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Wed Mar 22 13:36:52 2000


On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, John Garrison wrote:

> I have sent this message a couple times before, but you all seem to busy
> arguing with Jeff to help anybody, ironically he was the only one to try

You didn't provide any useful information.

> I have a DEC 21143 Based Ethernet Card. I am not sure of the
> manufacturer

There are (at a count seven months ago) over 150 distinct Tulip board
designs.

> it came with the computer, tulip seems to almost work with
> it, I
> mean I can ping the ip address assigned to the ethernet card, but
> according to cat /proc/net/dev the eth0 interface hasn't sent or
> recieved any packets. How is this possible if I can ping it.

That's not "almost working".

What driver version are you using?
What does 'tulip-diag' report?

> # traceroute apple
> traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 192.168.1.1 @ eth0
> traceroute to apple (192.168.1.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
>  1  tux (192.168.1.1)  2993.265 ms !H  2998.627 ms !H  2999.310 ms !H   
> 
> I would think that the fact that it knows to go through tux to get to
> apple is a good sign, but nothing happens after that.

You are getting packets through.  This looks as if it might be an interrupt
problem.

> It just keeps switching back and forth between 100baseTx and 10baseT. If

Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, becker@scyld.com

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