[tulip] Conexant LANfinity no longer works with tulip driver?

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Marinho Barcellos wrote:

> ok, thanks to help received now I managed to succesfully
> compile and load the tulip module. So, the interface is
> up, as shown below:
> 
> [root@tyne root]# ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8B:AB:1A:80
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:1698 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

You must be running a full duplex link -- the Conexant chip reports
every transmit packet as a carrier error in full duplex mode.

> > Yep. Newer initscripts from RedHat and Mandrake (and others?) require 
> > CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV. initscripts runs, IIRC, iproute, which in turn 
> > requires the netlink device. 
> 
> I tried to find CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV in make menuconfig but couldn't,
> so I modified directly in .config from:

Your problem is no longer the device driver...

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