Re: 2.6.6 ignores tulip (DC21041)
On Monday 14 June 2004 11:38 am, chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk wrote:
> I'm stumped on this one. I've been playing around for a while with
> 2.6.6 on AMD (x86), trying to get it to recognise my DEC 21041
> (tulip) PCI network card. FWIW, 2.4.25 and earlier all work fine with
> it.
>
> I've googled (web and news), and generally had a look around but
> cannot see anyone else having similar problems.
>
> I run it at 10 MBit/s half duplex. The modules.conf line for 2.4.25
> is "alias eth0 tulip". The equivalent for 2.6.6 might be "alias eth0
> de2104x", but I'm still getting my head round the new modutils stuff.
>
> At boot the card appears to be recognised, and everything looks like
> it's been initialised correctly. However, I never see any data
> packets.
>
> Ideas, anyone, before I report a formal bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
Are you using DHCP with woody? If so, edit /sbin/dhclient to include
2.6.x kernels.
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David Sanders
debian@sandersweb.net
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