[tulip] Re: de4x5 and tulip

[Homer Wilson Smith]

    Hi, thanks for answering.

    I have completely given up on the 21143 chips and FD with
the cisco 1900 10baseT ports.  100baseT works fine.

    I went and bought 60 21140's to keep me going until the world
ends!

    Homer

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Homer Wilson Smith   Clear Air, Clear Water,  Art Matrix - Lightlink
(607) 277-0959       A Green Earth and Peace. Internet Access, Ithaca NY
homer@lightlink.com  Is that too much to ask? http://www.lightlink.com

On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, David C. Davies wrote:

> Homer,
> 
> I'll check into this. FDX seems to be a problem that's coming up more
> often... As you found out, you will need the updated driver in 2.2.x to
> recognise the 21143 chipset.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave
> -------------------------
> 
> Homer Wilson Smith wrote:
> 
>           Dear Sir,
> 
>           I have despaired of getting the Kingston KNE100TX 21143
>       ethercard
>       to run in Full Duplex at 10baseT with a Cisco 1900.  It just
>       won't
>       do it using the latest tulip drivers v92 from Donald Becker.
> 
>           Kingston suggested I use the de4x5.c driver, it wouldn't
>       find the card
>       at all in 2.0.36, but loads fine in 2.2.13.  However it too
>       will not do
>       Full Duplex using insmod de4x5 args='eth0:fdx'. The Cisco1900
>       switch is in
>       forced full dup mode, and it shows *TERRIBLE* packet
>       throughput and lots
>       of runt frames, classic signs that the card is still using
>       half while the
>       Cisco is in fact in full.
> 
>           Is there anything I can do to get the 21143 Kingston to
>       work
>       properly with the Cisco 1900 switch?
> 
>           Homer
> 
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>       Homer Wilson Smith   Clear Air, Clear Water,  Art Matrix -
>       Lightlink
>       (607) 277-0959       A Green Earth and Peace. Internet
>       Access, Ithaca NY
>       homer@lightlink.com  Is that too much to ask?
>       http://www.lightlink.com
> 
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