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From: Lech Szychowski <lech.szychowski@pse.pl>
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Subject: Re: tulip question: tulip.o vs de4x5.o
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> >You can actually see the difference on older Alphas: de4x5 works while
> >tulip doesn't transmit or receive a single packet (getting netdev
> >watchdogs later on...).
> 
> That's a bug in tulip.

Speaking of bugs in tulip: I am still unable to use tulip driver
from 2.4.28 on my x86 SMP box (Asus P2B-DS) with Adaptec AN-6944A/TX
network card. While de4x5 works fine, with tulip at least one of the
Ethernet interfaces is unable to send/receive packets. More details
available on request.

-- 
	Leszek.

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