Re: Current tulip driver from 2.4.5 is plain broken

[J Brook <jbk@postmark.net>]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> I mentioned that before but this should be stated clearly.  As far
> as I am concerned "Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre2 (May 16,
> 2001)", as used in 2.4.5 - and other kernels - is totally buggered.
> It comes up, and ethernet interfaces can be configured, but does
> not matter how I am playing with options I cannot get a single
> packet through.
> 
> Replacing it in 2.4.5 with "Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.14d 
> (April 3, 2001)", which I have handy, restores sanity immediately 
> and a network simply works without any heroic efforts.
> 
> My NIC is "Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0x8800".  BTW - a
> version "tulip-1.1.7" from sourceforge behaves exactly like 
> 0.9.15-pre2.

 I see exactly the same (broken!) behaviour here. The last kernel
that
works for me in 2.4.4-ac6, which I'm running at the moment. All
subsequent -ac kernels and 2.4.5-pre4 and above are broken. I
reported
the bug last week. Quick system summary: RH7.1, Duron, KT133, Network
card chip "Digital 21041-AA". I get the same problem as above
(working
kernels set half-duplex, broken kernels set full-duplex). More
details
available on request, or at
http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2001week21/0278.html

  Thanks!

    John
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