[tulip] Test release of tulip.c v0.92h

[Karl Hammar]

Regarding PNIC-II
-----------------

I am willing to do testing to close the outstanding problem with the
PNIC-II.

I currently have Kingston KNE110TX cards.
If required, I can get other cards for testing.

I have tested thoose two versions of tulip.c, and the version included
in linux-2.2.17:

  Dec  3 14:17:14 opal kernel: tulip.c:v0.92 4/17/2000  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
  Dec  3 14:17:14 opal kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
  Dec  3 14:17:14 opal kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xc8854700, 00:C0:F0:57:BE:82, IRQ 9.
  Dec  3 14:17:14 opal kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 780b advertising 01e1.

  Dec  3 14:07:37 opal kernel: tulip.c:v0.92p 11/28/2000  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
  Dec  3 14:07:37 opal kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
  Dec  3 14:07:37 opal kernel: eth0: Kingston KNE110tx (PNIC) rev 32 at 0xc8854700, 00:C0:F0:57:BE:82, IRQ 9.
  Dec  3 14:07:37 opal kernel: eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 1100 status 780b advertising 01e1.

I have found that the linux-2.2.17 and the v0.92p version failes after
a while and on my switch, the link and 100Mbps led are lit, and the 
fd led is off. No communication possible.
Also the card can be so confused that a (warm) reboot is required to
make it talk with my switch again. Also tested with a 10Mbps hub.

I have run the v0.92 overnight (two times) with

  telnet otherhost chargen > /dev/null

running from both sides (other side is Sun U10 running Linux,
hme interface, which don't seem to have any problems at all).
And it has not yet failed.

Please tell me if there is anything I can help you with.

Regards,
/Karl

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My card contains following main chips:

  Kingston KT98100
  1111053
  9946
  FA731-000

  MYSON
  MTD972F
  9949EKB364

  MYSON
  MTD971V
  9930 EE

From: Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Subject: [tulip] Test release of tulip.c  v0.92h
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:09:13 -0400 (EDT)

> A new test release of the Tulip driver is now available from
>     ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/test/tulip.c
> 
> See
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
> and
>   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
> for instructions.
> 
> The minor change list for the Tulip driver has been growing without any
> specific problem being large enough to cause a release.  So I've put the
> changes together in this interim release.
> 
> The only outstanding problem is that the PNIC-II drops an auto-negotiated
> link during a Tx timeout.  Or more likely the timeout occurs because of some
> link problem during very heavy activity.
> 
> Barring problem reports, or a confirmation of the above issue, this version
> will likely become v0.93.  If v0.93 is stable for three months, it will be
> released as v1.00.
> 
> Anyway, here is the condensed and summarized log since v0.92:
...