Tulip driver doesn't work with 2.2

[john@mint.net]

This is simply false. I have at last count, five machine in the office
I'm in working fine with 2.2.x kernels, tulip (netgear) NICs, some clone
DEC chip, some original DEC chip. I also have several servers I've just
put into place with dual nic configurations and all run 100Mbit full
duplex with no problem using the stock driver from the 2.2.9 kernel,
running under SMP. This would be a total of 12 NICS in servers (all in a
dual nic config) and 5 in the office, all running happily on 2.2, and
maybe one or two of the ones in the office are actually running a 2.3,
one never knows with THESE people. :)  

I'm sorry your having problems with that NIC in that config, but perhaps
there's an issue with running that NIC under redhat asa module, THAT is
something I've frequently had a problem with. I can run it fine compiled
into the kernel, but when it's a module, I often have trouble. 

Hope this little bit of troubleshooting may help you. 

John

On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 03:56:56PM -0400, Tom Stoltman wrote:
> I'm sure other people have seen this problem, as well. The Tulip driver
> no longer works with 21143 nic cards. I have RedHat 6.0 and OpenLinux
> 2.2 (Caldera), and I can't get my 100mbps, 21143 nic cards to function.
> I noticed that the de4x5 driver that comes with 6.0 will work with the 
> copper nic's, but not the fiber nic's.
> 
> Does anyone know of a solution to this? Has the Tulip driver been
> modified
> since the release of 2.2? If so, how do I obtain the latest, and add to
> the kernel?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom

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