Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 1997 00:00:25 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bradley M Keryan <> | Subject | Re: Tulip driver & 2.0.30-pre-patch-2 |
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On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 12, 1997 at 11:53:45PM -0700, JDC wrote: > > I recently tried the 2.0.30-pre-patch-2 which was available > > on ftp.kernel.org under davem's directory, and have a little > > "complaint" to make about it. > > Don't mean to be picky, but: > <kernel messages deleted> > > It's an alpha test driver. > It blows out for me under 2.1 also.
I have an SMC Etherpower 8432 and have noticed a big improvement in the media detection in the 2.0.31-pre2 driver. The 8432 card has only a 10BT port, no AUI or BNC; this was a problem in earlier versions of the driver, since if the network went down, the machine would cycle between 10BT,AUI,BNC,10BT,AUI,etc. Usually it would require a reboot for it to start working again.
I suppose that's less of a problem for most people, but since I'm home from school during the summer, my computer is not hooked up to a hub. It is connected to another PC with a crossover cable, and when the other PC was shut off, my computer's media detection would go crazy. But now, it just gives the message "eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switch ed to 10base2." when the link disappears, and "eth0: 21041 media switched to 10baseT." when the link is back up.
> Use de4x5 instead for now. > Or simply copy the old tulip driver from 2.0.30 into 2.0.31. > > In all honesty, I don't really think it should be put into 2.0 just yet. > I've got an SMC EtherPower and the new driver doesn't like it at all. >
What model of card do you have? Is it on a 100 mbit network? SMC certainly has made plenty of different Etherpower cards, with a few different chipsets. Not to mention all of the non-SMC tulip-based cards out there.
If the driver doesn't work with certain models of tulip card that worked before, however, that's a good reason not to put the driver in the 2.0 series yet (or to fix the driver).
Does anyone know if there is a mailing list archive somewhere for the linux-tulip-bug mailing list?
Brad Keryan keryan@andrew.cmu.edu http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~keryan On the wrong computer to be using my PGP keyring
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