Re: Bug#49536: Debian kernel doesn't like NetGear tulip card
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On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 12:22:46AM -0800, Anne C. Hanna wrote:
> Package: kernel
> Version: 2.0.36
>
> I have an ethernet card with Tulip chips, made by NetGear. When I installed
> the Debian kernel (with the tulip.o module), I was able to ping my own
> computer, but not the gateway, and the computer was continually trying to
> reconfigure my card and failing to find a suitable configuration. This
> happened both with the 2.0.36 and 2.2.12 kernels. However, when I tried
> RedHat's 2.2.5 kernel, all of my problems mysteriously disappeared. I also
> changed to the RedHat tulip.o module. I'm too much of a newbie to really
> understand what's going on here, but I hope I've given you some useful
> information.
What's happening is that Don Becker's tulip.o has diverged from the one that's
currently in the kernel so much that they support/break differen Tulip cards.
So it isn't as simple as replacing the one in the kernel with Don's driver as
RedHat seems to have done as that may break other Tulip cards.
What could be done is for someone to produce a package that contains Don
Becker's current tulip.o and then the base floppies people can included it.
Any takers?
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