Re: Problems with tulip driver
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.
Also look at Donald Becker's company's site (Becker wrote most of the
linux networking software)
http://www.scyld.com/network/
>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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