[tulip] ANA 6944A/TX weird after testing it with win2k and then going back to Linux

[Christian Birchinger]

Hi,
I have the same problem with the duplicated HWaddresses on my
ANA-6944A/TX with the de4x5 driver from 2.4.16.
Try the tulip driver from:
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/

Instructions how to use it are here:
http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html

It's "Linux 2.4"-alike stable on my system
(Worked one week without crashing so it must be good ;)

It's the only driver which works for me correctly. With 2.4
the tulip driver locks the machine when 2 or more interfaces
are being configured and the de4x5 has duplicated HWaddresses.
Theres some pci_reverse scan patch. But that patch only
gives eth3 the HWaddress of eth0 and has dupplicated addresses
for eth0-2. (It "reverses" the problem)

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:18:05AM -0600, William Harrington wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>    Having a bit of a problem here.  The card was in the same slot, no configuration differences, probably the only thing that changed was the IRQ's the interfaces were using.  Before I was goofing around with win2k, I had a successful installation of slackware with 2.4.16 kernel using the de4x5.o module for the DEC 21140, and I had 4 3c905c's along with it (each running their own subnets).  I installed win2k and it ended up seeing it as an intel 21140 of course wasn't working, nothing was working..... now when I go back to Linux, the card isn't working right.  Now either something was changed on the card itself, which I suspect, or something else is happening.  When I insmod de4x5 this is what is in the message console:
> 
> eth0: DC21140 at 0xd000 (PCI bus 2, device 4), h/w address 00:00:d1:1e:7a:54, and requires IRQ10 (provided by PCI BIOS).
> de4x5.c:V0.546 2001/02/22 davies@maniac.ultranet.com
> eth1: DC21140 at 0xd000 (PCI bus 2, device 5), h/w address 00:00:d1:1e:7a:55, and requires IRQ10 (provided by PCI BIOS).
> de4x5.c:V0.546 2001/02/22 davies@maniac.ultranet.com
> eth2: DC21140 at 0xd000 (PCI bus 2, device 6), h/w address 00:00:d1:1e:7a:55, and requires IRQ10 (provided by PCI BIOS).
> de4x5.c:V0.546 2001/02/22 davies@maniac.ultranet.com
> eth3: DC21140 at 0xd000 (PCI bus 2, device 7), h/w address 00:00:d1:1e:7a:55, and requires IRQ10 (provided by PCI BIOS).
> de4x5.c:V0.546 2001/02/22 davies@maniac.ultranet.com