Re: Tulip madness
incorrect. i have several boxes with NICs that require the tulip chipet
drivers. i have it compiled into the kernel. i am running a custom
2.4.18 kernel.
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David Anthony Hacker
Computer Systems Consultant
Media Union
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Nathan Ingersoll wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:03:58AM -0300, Cesar Cardoso is quoted as saying:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a PowerMac 5500/250 with the built-in Ethernet card (a Tulip
> > one). Kernel is 2.4.19-rc1-ben0.
> > I never managed to make the Ethernet card work right on GNU/Linux,
> > previously on YDL and also on Debian.
> > If I load the "tulip" module, it finds the wrong MAC and doesn't work at
> > all.
> > If I load the "de4x5" module, it works for a short time. After a few
> > minutes, I have to restart networking because it loses contact with the
> > other computers on the network.
> >
> > I've read that the Tulip code on the kernel is borked.
> >
> > Do I need to buy an PCI card (like a RTL8139-based one) to make
> > networking work right?
> >
> > --
> > Cesar Cardoso - cesaracardoso@yahoo.com.br - www.cesarcardoso.tk
> > "T? a? a lua. Que beleza! Ser? crescente ou decrescente? Decrescente, ?
> > claro"
> > (Galv?o Bueno)
>
> This sounds similar to problems reported on the 6500, you may want to try
> modifying de4x5.c with the attached patch. This just implements the fix that
> benh described a few months ago.
>
> To use, cd linux/drivers/net and then:
>
> patch -p0 < /path/to/patch/de4x5.patch
>
> Hopefully, this will fix your problems.
>
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> | mailto: ningerso@d.umn.edu | University of Minnesota-Duluth |
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