ARRGH!!! Tulip card again

[flonesaw@longship.net]

HELP!

This is driving me absolutely positively mad.

I have a Netgear F? 310TX network card, which is a PNIC 82c168 (tulip clone).

I *cannot* get this card to run reliably on the latest Debian stable (2.2.Rev4).

I have used both the tulip.o and the old_tulip.o drivers.

The old_tulip.o module worked last night, but not this morning.  In between I
installed some additional software, none of which had anything to do with the
kernel or kernel modules.

I configure the driver with "options=13" which sets the card's mode to MII
100BaseTx.  This is what was working last night.  When I ping my gateway today,
I get:

   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffc002.
   eth0: The transmitter stopped!  CSR5 is 206803a, CSR6 816ec002.
   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffc000.
   eth0: The transmitter stopped!  CSR5 is 206801a, CSR6 816ec002.
   eth0: Transmit error, Tx status 7fffc002.
   eth0: The transmitter stopped!  CSR5 is 206803a, CSR6 816ec002.
   eth0: LC82C168 negotiated capability 00000000, CSR5 02660010.
   eth0: LC82C168 MII PHY status ffff, Link partner report 0000, csr6 816ec000/816ee002.

If I let the module autoprobe, I get

   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 01860000.
   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 00420000.
   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 01868000.
   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 00428000.
   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 01868000.
   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 00428000.
   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 01868000.
   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 00428000.
   eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 01868000.
   ...

This is a common network card.  I've had absolutely no problems with these
cards with other Linux installations.

Somebody who knows this driver, please help me.  Thank you.


Arne Flones
flonesaw at longship dot net