[tulip] Linksys LNE100TX version 4.0 (more information)

Christopher Smith x@philstone.com
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:40:49 -0700


Does the 2.4preX driver work?

--Chris

--On Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:29 PM -0500 Jon Schewe 
<jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net> wrote:

> Ok.  I've done a little bit of testing here to see how I can get this
> card to work.  I'm trying to connect it to a Linksys 10/100 switch.
> Linux can find the card, but the activity light blinks like mad and Linux
> complains about Recieve errors.  So apparently the tulip driver under
> Linux isn't working quite right with the autonegotion, a known problem.
> I can't figure out how to force the card to 100 full duplex, so I'm
> trying the card in other systems. The card works fine in Windows 95,
> which probably isn't very helpful here. However I do have FreeBSD 3.2 up
> on a system as well and the card happens to work fine with it.  Since
> Linux and FreeBSD are both open source I don't suppose someone that knows
> more about the driver internals than me, should be most everyone, could
> look at the FreeBSD driver and figure out what's wrong with the Linux
> one.  It's using the "DEC/Intel 21143 (and clones) PCI fast ethernet
> card" driver, according to the setup program.
>
> --
> Jon Schewe
> http://eggplant.mtu.net/~jpschewe
> jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net
>
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