[tulip] Cogent Quartet/400 multiport NIC problem.

brian b@mighty.morphism.org
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:17:55 -0600 (CST)


On an additional note, it _does_ work with 0.92t on 2.2.18.

Do you think this is a fixable problem with respect to the 2.4.0 driver
development?

Brian


> I know that questions of this nature have been addressed on this mailing
> list in the recent past, but none of them seem to really confront the kind
> of problems I've been having.
> 
> I'm building a small-scale cluster and will be connecting four other
> machines to the Quartet/400 (4 x 21140 + 21050) via crossover cable.  The
> problem is the machine locks up on issuing 'ifconfig' for any of the 2nd -
> 4th interfaces on the card.  You can call "ifconfig eth0 10.1.0.1" and it
> will work properly.  If you call any of "ifconfig eth1 ..." to "ifconfig
> eth3 ..." the machine will lock up.