[tulip] Odd problem with LNE 100 TX Linksys card

[Robert E. Blair]

I'm having an odd problem with my LNE 100 TX Linsys card (details below).
It used to work fine, but I upgraded kernels (unfortunately, some other
things too so maybe I'm on the wrong track).  Here is the problem.  Anyone
with an ahah at reading them should tell me what they suspect.

Either the Redhat 6.2 (i386) tulip module or the most recent from the
scyld web site (as of yesterday) load without any problems.  The network,
however, does not come up and while an /sbin/ifconfig indicates all is
well any attempt to ping a machine just hangs.  I discovered that if I
issue a "/sbin/ifconfig eth0 -promisc" (which turns off promiscuous mode
even though it isn't on!) the adapter begins to work just fine.  I
discovered this because I tried to use ntop to zero in on the problem and
the adapter began working.

Any ideas?  Below are some details on system configuration:

lspci says:
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 11)

a cat /proc/pci says:
    Ethernet controller: LiteOn LNE100TX (rev 17).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.
Laten
cy=64.
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffe6f800 [0xffe6f800].

/sbin/ifconfig says:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:CC:30:6A:89
          inet addr:24.131.153.193  Bcast:24.131.153.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:42706 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7944 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:245 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x5800

The module says:
Aug 30 18:29:44 pcblair000 kernel: tulip.c:v0.92 4/17/2000  Written by
Donald Be
cker <becker@scyld.com>
Aug 30 18:29:44 pcblair000 kernel: tulip.c:v0.92 4/17/2000  Written by
Donald Be
cker <becker@scyld.com>
Aug 30 18:29:44 pcblair000 kernel:
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
Aug 30 18:29:44 pcblair000 kernel:
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
Aug 30 18:29:44 pcblair000 kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 17 at
0xc685580
0, 00:A0:CC:30:6A:89, IRQ 9.
Aug 30 18:29:44 pcblair000 kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 17 at
0xc685580
0, 00:A0:CC:30:6A:89, IRQ 9.
Aug 30 18:30:03 pcblair000 network: Bringing up interface lo succeeded
Aug 30 18:30:03 pcblair000 ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...

Is there a reason for the stutter stutter?

Any help would be much appreciated!

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