Tulip Driver, LinuxKernel 2.2 and Netgear Card

[Kain]

On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:36:17PM -0600, Kartik Shah wrote:
> I have Linux (Mandrake 6.5), kernel 2.2. I am trying to use the Netgear
> FA310TX card which has the Tulip relabeled PNIC chip. I used the tulip
> driver that came with the Netgear card but it does not work. I downloaded
> the driver version 0.91, compiled it and installed it but that does not work
> either. When I ping i see packets being transmitted and the light on the hub
> blinking, but no packets are received and the ping timesout. The network is
> a simple one with 4 machines connected to a local hub with no connection to
> the outside world.

I used to have this issue.. It's fixed in the current 2.3 (>=48, IIRC) kernels.

In 2.2, it looked like the driver programmed or initalized this card not-quite-right.... I found a work-around that worked like so..

ifconfig eth0 promisc
ping -c 4 <broadcast addy of interface here>
ifconfig eth0 -promisc

Your mileage will probably vary.

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