Re: Problems with tulip driver
as86 is part of package bin86
Pascal
paashaas@rice.edu
On Sunday 25 February 2001 20:40, James K. Wiggs wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Thanks for the info. I find it sort of astonishing that there
> are problems with the tulip driver. This has to be probably the
> most commonly used driver other than the ne2k. I've been using
> these NetGear cards in most of my boxes for about three years and
> never had *any* problems with any previous kernel. The box I did
> this install on was running 2.2.14 previously, and the card never
> complained.
>
> Anyway, I unpacked the kernel source and did a "make xconfig"
> and I find that, interestingly, the FA-310TX card has its own
> button on the network drivers menu. I decided to compile it
> right into the kernel rather than as a module. The only problem
> now is that make is complaining that it can't find as86, even
> though I selected the development packages when I did the
> install. Looking through the stuff on the CD that I downloaded
> and burned, I can't figure out which .deb package contains the
> assembler. Do you happen to know? Can I just do an "apt-get
> install as86" and expect it to work?
>
> I have to say that, overall, I've been thoroughly unimpressed
> by the Debian distro. I was told that the installation would be
> tough, but I *never* anticipated the two-day nightmare that this
> has become.
>
> Thanks for your help, regardless.
>
> best,
> Jim Wiggs
>
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > 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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