DEC Personal WS 500a

Tue Jul 6 19:08:05 1999

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after you get the old tulip.c you might consider doing a diff on the two to
find what changes where made. maybe something will stick out like a sore
thumb, but then again maybe there are so many changes it'll be like trying to
find a needle in a hay stack....

pardon the puns..

Douglas Eadline [deadline@plogic.com] wrote:
> 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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