Tulip driver, Linksys card, and 2.3.x kernels.. success

[James Curbo]

Yes! I had thought about this but it slipped my mind while emailing.
I live in a dorm, and we're wired for 10BaseT. I have not had an
opportunity to test it with any 100BaseT networks.

James

On Jan 20, Jim Morris wrote:
> James,
> 
> You neglected to state what you have this card connected to.  I have
> several of these cards, and although they work fine connected to a
> 10BaseT hub, the 0.91x driver did not work well for me when I connected
> the cards to a 10/100BaseTX hub or switch.  I had trouble with the media
> selection sometimes choosing 10MBPS instead of 100MBPS.  I also had a
> lot of trouble with TX timeouts at 100BaseTX.
> 
> So, are you using a 10BaseT or 100BaseTX network?
> 
> Thanks for the info....
> 
> James Curbo wrote:
> 
> > I recently bought a Linksys EtherFast LNE100TX PCI network card,
> > and started digging through the Tulip page on CESDIS to get the driver,
> > since I have read before that the kernel driver is outdated.
> > Well the latest development driver (0.91g I believe) doesn't compile on
> > 2.3.x (as previously reported) and I found Kevin Myers' reports
> > on this mailing list about how he got the new 0.91x drivers
> > to compile. I followed them and I would like to report
> > that they work like a charm and I've had the driver going for
> > about a day now with no apparent problems. I'd like to thank Kevin
> > for the instructions, I'm not a superb kernel hacker, and without
> > them I'd be forced to use 2.2 and not be on the bleeding edge :)

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