Re: tulip driver still broken

[joseph.bueno@trader.com]

Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> Chris Friesen wrote:
> >
> > Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> > >
> > > My genuine digital network interface card ceased to work with the tulip
> > > driver contained in kernel revisions >= 2.4.4 and the development driver from
> > > sourceforge.net.
> >
> > How is the sourceforge driver different than the one at www.scyld.com?
> >
> 
> Becker (Scyld) has only recently gotten his drivers to even compile
> on 2.4 kernel, and they are still beta quality for 2.4, evidently.
> 
> There seem to be attempts to keep the drivers in sync, functionally,
> but the architectures have diverged quite a lot...
> 
> Ben
> 
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Hi,

I am currently using a Xircom Ethernet adapter (tulip_cb module) with a
2.4.5 kernel.

The only way I have found to make it work is to turn on promiscuous mode
(with 'tcpdump -i eth0 -n > /dev/null') after bootup. I can turn it off
after a few minutes without problem. 

I don't know if tulip driver I am using has been patched since I haven't
compiled this 2.4.5 kernel myself. Here is driver bootup information:

tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (modified by danilo@cs.uni-magdeburg.de for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford)
eth0: Xircom Cardbus Adapter (DEC 21143 compatible mode) rev 3 at 0x200, 00:10:A4:C0:2A:30, IRQ 9.
eth0:  MII transceiver #0 config 3100 status 7809 advertising 01e1.

Hope this helps
Regards
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Joseph Bueno