Re: Network card driver problem (znb.o/tulip)

[Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>]

On Sunday 20 March 2005 01:29 pm, jamal wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 14:18, Kosta Todorovic wrote:
> > > I dont think mii-tool will tell you the truth with these cards.
> > > Like i was saying earlier - they use SYM PHYs.
> >
> > Either way, no traffic moved across them when I tried.
>
> Probably the stats display is your best bet for debugging.
>
> > > Does it work on 32 bit machines? I am assuming when you say "64 bit"
> > > you mean the architecture not PCI bus.
> >
> > Yes it does work on 32bit machines, but with the actual znb.o driver
> > thats supplied by ZNXY.
> > And yes i am refering to architecture and NOT pci bus.
>
> It works just fine for me with 32 bit machine with the standard tulip
> driver(sorry dont have 64 bit - too poor); does it work for you?
> i.e i dont use the Znyx driver at all. I always have mine running
> 100Mbps FDX.

My Linksys NC100 adapter works fine on my Athlon 64 system.  So, it is 
probably an adapter/driver interaction issue, and not a 64bit one.  

Kosta, Can you confrim that the tulip driver works for you on a 32bit system?


> If it works on 32 bit, then it maybe an issue with the tulip driver.
>
> cheers,
> jamal

Thanks,
Jon