[tulip] mtable build problem, whatever that means

[Donald Becker]

On 21 Jun 2001, Greg wrote:

> I'm trying to get a Macronix NIC (which uses the tulip driver) to work
> on an older machine.  It works just fine on my new KT133 AMD machine
> (I'm using it to send this message), but when I swap it into an old 486,

The 486 likely has a non-compliant PCI bus.  It could still work, but
there might be PCI burst problems.

> I get the following on bootup: "tulip0: no phy info, aborting mtable
> build".  I've emailed the maintainer of the driver, but he hasn't
> responded.  Does anyone know what the problem might be?  Thanks...

I'm guessing that you have a Jeff Garzik modified driver, and that you
sent email to him.  In defense of maintainers, I've encountered plenty
of user sites that reject or apparently discard my email.  Earlier this
week I was travelling and used a Houston ISP that must have a bad
reputation.  I had composed a bunch of replies off-line, and about half
were bounced.

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