[tulip] nc100 v2.1 PPC quirks

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, List Receiver wrote:

> I've got a LinkSys NC100 v2.1 card mostly working in LinuxPPC, but with a
> couple glitches.
> 
> 1) It won't work at all on the first boot from power-off. I boot all the way
> into LPPC, restart, and boot into LPPC again, THEN it works.
> 
> 2) Ifconfig never reports the hardware address correctly. On first boot it's
> pretty close, on subsequent boots it's not so close.

These two problems are related, and are fixed in the v0.92u driver.

> Aside from that, it seems fine.
> Is there anything I can do to get this working on first boot? And does the
> scrambled HWaddr indicate trouble lurking beneath the surface, or should I
> not worry?

Yup, the problem is correctly reading the station address.

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
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