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Re: Problems with tulip driver



james, the tulip driver is problematic.

we've had cards at our installfests that required the tulip.c driver from
the 2.4.* kernels.

can you ping the card's IP?
what does /var/log/messages say?

why don't you recompile the kernel and turn off Lite-On 82c168 PNIC.
compile it as a module or something.  that will stop the kernel from trying
to configure the card at boot.

pete

On Sun 25 Feb 01,  2:33 PM, James K. Wiggs said: 
> 
>  Folks,
> 
>    I'm finding it impossible to get networking functional on the
> box I've just installed 2.2r2 on.  This is not an exotic setup, and
> I've successfully installed several other distros on it at one time
> or another, but the Debian install has been a complete wash.
> 
>    Why does my NetGear FA-310TX refuse to work with this kernel?
> I searched the archives of the mailing lists exhaustively, and I've
> found no mention of this problem, but it clearly is not working on
> my box.
> 
>    I've got an AMD K6-2 350 on an FIC board; the only cards in the
> machine are a BT-950 SCSI card, the NetGear card, and an older SB
> AWE32 card.  The master disk on the primary controller is an ACER
> 50X CD, and the master disk on the secondary controller is a CD-RW
> drive, a Matsushita 8x4x32.  The box works perfectly with RedHat
> 6.0 and 6.2, and with Mandrake 7.0.  The hard disk is an IBM 4.3
> GB FW-SCSI.
> 
>    The boot logs show that the kernel identifies the card as a
> "Lite-On 82c168 PNIC" (???), and the interface gets configured 
> with the proper IP, netmask, etc, but any attempts to send any
> data out over the wire fail.
> 
>    Any suggestions?
> 
> best,
> Jim Wiggs
> 
> 
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