DEC Personal WS 500a

[Douglas Eadline]

On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, ErMaC wrote:

> I've had a similar problem, and the only workaround I've found so far is to
> download an earlier kernel to get an older driver (for some reason
> unbeknownst to me). I've installed RedHat on two different Personal WS's (a
> 300i and a 266i) and the only way I got the card to work was with a 2.2.1
> kernel (I think the driver in the kernel download changed in 2.2.3 or so).
> Try taking the tulip.c file from those kernel distributions and using that.
> 
> Not a very good solution but a workaround, none the less.

You may find it more convenient to look at:

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html

and down oad the driver you need rather than the whole kernel.

Doug
> 
> -ErMaC
> http://senshitv.dhs.org
> (Running on a 266i!)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robin M. Braun <Robin.Braun@tip.csiro.au>
> To: <linux-tulip@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 6:11 PM
> Subject: DEC Personal WS 500a
> 
> 
> > Help Please
> >
> > I have a DEC Personal Workstation 500a with a Tulip card with an MII
> > interface. It connects to 10/100baseT.
> >
> > I am running RedHat 6.0 with a 2.2 series kernel. I have tried every
> option
> > from 0 to 15 for selecting the media with no luck. The unit worked with an
> > earlier version of RedHat and kernel. Doe anyone have any experience with
> > this combination.
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > Robin M. Braun
> > Telecommunications and Industrial Physics
> > CSIRO, Marsfield, Austraila
> >
> >
> 

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