Ack! The Lights! Turn on the Lights! (anti-vampire)

[Stephen Host]

Hey. Ok. Linux 2.2.14 is out. Yay. Let's upgrade.

Ok. I Upgraded. cp usr/Src/linux/arch/i386/bhoot/zImage /boot/vmlinuz,
/sbin/lilo

blah blah reboot..

Now when i reboot, it detects my ethernet cards (3 X 21041 DLINK cards),
the link/traffic lights blink.. now during init of eth (ifconfig) process
(at least i'm guessing it's at this point) the LIGHTS TURN
OFF!!!#!@$_#$@)_#@$

Link and traffic lights are gone! Dead! toast! holy mackinaw batman! =)

So i'm back to 2.2.13 ..  anyway, what is my problem? Is this a bug? I
installed the new kernel from a virgin source tree.. uysing my old .config
with make oldconfig which in my knowledge should have gone very smoothly.

Note: When copying the latest driver source from don's web page, and
inserting it into the 2.2.13 source tree (tulip.c ONLY) it does THE SAME
THING and i figured i did something wrong.. i would only assume that a
fresh 2.2.14 sourcetree  should work j ust fine..


Thanks guys in advance! (and gals)

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Steve Host - Engineering Systems & Computing Student, University of Guelph
       godiva.eos.uoguelph.ca/~shost/shost.html - shost@uoguelph.ca
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Donald Becker wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Edward Zarecor wrote:
> 
> > I am putting together a small home network of machines running RH 6.1 
> > and/or WinNT.  My firewall machine has two Netgear FA310tx auto-sensing 
> > ethernet cards one of which is connected to a DSL modem, the other to my 
> > LAN via 10/100 autosensing hub.  The network is up and running, but the 
> > FA310x's are defaulting to half duplex.  Should I:
> > 
> > a: specifiy the media type in conf.modules.
> > 
> > b. recompile the tulip driver after changing the full-duplex flag
> > 
> > c. none of the above.
> 
> Acckkkk!!
> Well, at least you asked instead of reporting a bug later.
> 
> The driver is working correctly.
> All of your connections *should* be half duplex.
> Forcing full duplex will cause massive performance and correctness problems.
> 
> 'Ping' will work, and everything else will be horribly slow and unreliable.
> Some types of network cards will freeze for a seconds at a time when
> presented with out-of-window collisions.
> 
> On an unrelated topic, I'm working today on updating the "kern-2.3" drivers
> to work with the recent development kernels.
> 
> Donald Becker
> Scyld Computing Corporation, and
> USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> 
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