On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:10:52PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-14 11:06:01 -0600, Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> > wrote in message <[🔎] 20040114170601.GB14903@tennyson.netexpress.net>: > > > Keep in mind that there are two drivers for "tulip" style network chips. > > > "tulip" is for the newer cards, "de4x5" is for older cards. > > > Unfortunately, there are some PCI IDs which are accepted by both > > > drivers, but only one of them will properly drive the hardware. > > > > Well, unless the coverage of the tulip driver has *changed* since > > 2.4.19, mine definitely uses the tulip module. > But to be save, please try the other driver once. Tried it -- doesn't work any better. :) Curiously, I threw a 3c905 card in the box, and can't get it to work from the debian-installer, either; gives me a "too much work for interrupt" error, even if I force it into 10baseT mode. Will have to play some more with this... > > > >From my Miata (PWS 500) I also remember having had some trouble with > > > the qlogic driver, but those vanished at some time. However, I don't > > > remember *what* actually solved that... > > I'm pretty sure, based on what I've heard from others working with > > 2.4.2x, that there are still outstanding problems with PCI bridges on > > alphas as of 2.4.23. > There have been patches around for 2.6.x IIRC. I don't know for sure if > they've been integrated to now... If you can give me a pointer to a patch for 2.4 (or one that could easily be backported), I'd be happy to look at integrating this for sarge. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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