[tulip-bug] Bizarre tulip receive problem

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Paul Jones wrote:

>   My D-Link System Inc DFE-500TX Fast Ethernet card is having problems 
> receive packets on a regular and timely basis.  For example here is the 
> output of a ping command to a computer on my network
> 
> PING 192.168.0.177 (192.168.0.177) from 192.168.0.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.177: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1708 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.177: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=696 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.177: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.565 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.177: icmp_seq=4 ttl=128 time=1622 ms
...
> Index #1: Found a Digital DS21143 Tulip adapter at 0xd800.
> Digital DS21143 Tulip chip registers at 0xd800:

What driver version are you using?
What is the detection message?

>   I am running Redhat 7.3 with the 2.4.19 kernel.

That's very likely your problem...

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