[LRP] Dec Tulip based NICs

[Kevin Traas]

Hmmm.... . Do you have a fixed environment that you're running them in?
i.e. are you forced to specify options when loading the module?

We never know what environmental specifics our systems are being placed
into; therefore, we need proper auto-sensing of the Ethernet environment.

Regards,
Kevin


----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher E. Brown <cbrown@denalics.net>
To: Kevin Traas <ktraas@netmaster.ca>
Cc: Tom Zacharoff <tomz@esscor.com>; Linux Tulip
<linux-tulip@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [LRP] Dec Tulip based NICs


> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Kevin Traas wrote:
>
> > > > I've got a box full of Kingston cards based on 21143's sitting on
the
> > shelf
> > > > collecting dust now....  Waiting for a tulip driver that works with
them
> > or
> > > > something....
> > >
> > > Switch to the .91 or later driver, and they work find, it is
> > > the .89H driver they fail with.
> >
> > I left the .89 series drivers behind long ago while in search of
something
> > that worked....  We'd tried all the 0.90zzzzzzzzzz series versions and
the
> > 0.91.  All to no avail.  None of them have worked any better...
> >
> > However, I haven't tried the very latest updates to 0.91.    I've been
too
> > frustrated to wok on this any further.
>
>
> Then there is somthing else very wrong.  When we started
> receiving the new KN100TX units with the 21143-PD I found that the .89
> driver does not work.  A simple upgrade to v0.91 fixed everything.  I
> now have over 30 of the new cards in production, with a range of
> motherboards and BIOS, 2.0.x, 2.1.x and 2.2.x every one fails with
> v0.89, and works fine with v0.91.
>
>
> ----
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>      "Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about..."
>
>