[tulip-bug] Success and Failure with tulip_cb.o module with LinkSys PCMCIA ethernet card

[Neale Banks]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Michael Sparks wrote:

[...]
> I have the following hardware:
>    * Lifebook P laptop
>    * Linksys PCPM200 PCMCIA ethernet card
> 
> The two really don't want to talk to each other under linux.
[...]
> Unless I run tcpdump in the background, in which case, they're a very
> happy threesome... I would dearly love not to have to run tcpdump in the
> background - though it's a novel workaround ... :-)

Wild guess: The key is that tcpdump is putting the interface into
promiscuous mode.  If so, "ifconfig ethX promisc" (optionally followed
by "ifconfig ethX -promisc") may kick-start things for you.

> (I tried it since dhcpcd was able to pick up an IP address and loopback
> connections _eventually_ connected)
> 
> The question I have initially is a) Is this the right place to ask for
> help b) if it is, what information would be needed to debug what's going
> on here so that I can switch of tcpdump ? (And add another working piece
> of hardware to the linux fold... :-)

distro? kernel version?  tulip module version string?

At what point is it failing?

HTH,
Neale.