Macronix issue: link light extinguishes?

[Scott Bronson]

Quick description: When I turn on my new computer, the link light on my
Macronix NIC lights up almost immediately (as it should, since I know
the connection is good).  I boot Linux, then I "modprobe tulip".  The
tulip driver loads fine, reports in /var/log/messages that it found the
hardware and appears happy, the eth0 interface appears and responds, but
the link light on the card itself extinguishes!  Every ping I try times
out.

When I re-start the computer, the link light turns back on.   And it
turns off when I try to load the tulip driver again.

I've tried every combination that I could think of--plugging the card
into different PCI slots, messing with IRQs to try to cause some
change...  Nothing.  I even tried plugging in a rtl8139-based card --
the exact same thing happens when I "modprobe rtl8139"!

I'm running Storm Linux (a Debian variation) with stock kernel 2.2.13.

I could swear that I read years ago in some HOWTO how to fix this
problem, but all my net searching today has been futile.  Can anyone
tell me what else I can check?

thanks,

	- Scott


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