From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <37E3CD97.638635DD@onsemi.com> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 10:36:23 -0700 From: "Dave Gomez (rvlr40)" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Costabel CC: linuxppc-dev , Kazumitsu Hanai , linuxppc-user Subject: Re: Ethernet Adapters that actually work! References: <37E3935C.720A5F60@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Martin, They aren't really that old, but only recently, last 2 weeks, has the driver been updated, with bug fixes that have capped a fairly reliable solution. The latest version is 0.91m, and it works nicely with the Asante 10/100, and also with a Netgear 10/100 FA310TX. They do have to be built as modules, but work with 2.2.6 & 2.2.10, and I believe on the 2.3.X, you can build it right in instead of a module, just update the specified source files. dave Martin Costabel wrote: > 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/