From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <37E3935C.720A5F60@wanadoo.fr> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 15:27:56 +0200 From: Martin Costabel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev CC: Kazumitsu Hanai , linuxppc-user Subject: Re: Ethernet Adapters that actually work! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Kazumitsu Hanai wrote (not for the first time): > All ethernet cards, the chipsets of which are DEC 21*4*, will work with tulip > driver in LinuxPPC. *BUT*, be careful, the tulip driver contained in the > kernel > source, even the latest, is very old, and this driver does not work in > LinuxPPC > at all. You must download the latest tulip.c, or at least newer than v0.91 Is there a known reason why the kernel sources contain a stone-age version of tulip.c? Is everyone supposed to use de4x5 instead or what? (I can confirm that for my Farallon card with its DECchip 21041, both de4x5 from the kernel sources and tulip.c:v0.91 from the site given by Kazumitsu Hanai are working. The Neanderthal tulip.c from the kernel sources doesn't). >>From the 2.3.18 kernel in drivers/net/tulip.c: static const char version[] = "tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov\n"; That's from the era of kernel version 2.1.103! Even better is the "information" in Documentation/networking/tulip.txt: This driver is designed to work with PCI Ethernet cards which use the DECchip DC21x4x family. This driver hopefully works with all of 1.2.x and 1.3.x kernels, but I tested only with 1.2.13, 1.3.39, 1.3.49, 1.3.52, 1.3.57 and later. Well, a little later it is honest enough to suggest So, if your card is not a 9332dst, please try the de4x5.c driver first. -- Martin ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/