Does the tulip.c support Mandrake 6.5

[Wolfgang Walter]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 10:34:07AM -0600, Fuzzy Fox wrote:
> WangYongjie101@aol.com <WangYongjie101@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > I bought a Netgear 310TX card which tells me to use the tulip.c.
> 
> If it's a Netgear FA310TX with the "real" DEC Tulip chip on it, keep
> that card, it's golden.  The tulip driver will work perfectly with it.
> 
> If it's the newer FA310TX (same part number) with the Netgear 82C169
> PNIC on it, then it's the same time of card I have, and my experience is
> that the tulip driver (0.91g, the only version I can find) does not work
> very well with it at all.  I saw dropped packets, the card would
> disappear off the net frequently, etc..
> 
> However, Netgear has modified the tulip driver to support their card. 
> It should be on your installation disk that came with the card; look for
> a LINUX directory, and you'll find a TULIP.C file which you can install
> in the kernel source tree, in place of the tulip.c that is already
> there.  When using this driver, I found that the card works quite well,
> except that at high-throughput rates (I got up to 4.5 MB/s on my
> half-duplex hub arrangement), the card would suddenly stop processing
> packets, and need an ifconfig down/up in order to resume.  But that's a

Probably the same error which was in tulip.c before 2.2.14. If you send me
TULIP.C I can tell you (and may incorporate my changes too vanilla tulip.c
0.91g-ppc=. These are in 2.2.14, too).

Greetings,

Wolfgang Walter

> topic in another thread.  Your luck may be better than mine.
> 
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