0.90p and DFE-500TX

Thomas Roessler roessler@guug.de
Mon Feb 22 13:50:40 1999


After having struggled quite a bit with older tulip drivers (stock 2.0.34),
0.90f finally got our DFE-500TX working.  Thanks for the driver, I should
have tried it earlier. :)

Anyway, ifconfig reports rather strange interface statistics.  Note that the
interface actually works.

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:80:C8:93:EC:E7  
          inet addr:131.220.223.83  Bcast:131.220.223.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5545 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>         TX packets:2 errors:1433 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1433
          Collisions:0 
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000 

tlr