no link beat - problem with the driver or the router/hub?

[Jason Thompson]

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We recently had some difficulty setting up an SMC EtherPower NIC connecting
to a Netgear RH348 ISDN router/hub.  Using either the tulip or the de4x5
drivers, we would receive an error message stating that "no 10baseT link
beat" was found when we connected directly to the RH348's hub.  We were able
to initialize other cards such as an Intel EtherExpress and an NE2000 clone.
The only success we had with the EtherPower and the tulip driver was to
connect the RH348's hub to an external 10baseT hub and then connect the
EtherPower to that.

Is this a problem with the RH348's hub (e.g. it doesn't provide something
that a cheapo 10baseT hub provides), or with the tulip driver checking for a
link beat where other NIC drivers do not?  I know that the EtherPower card
uses the updated 21041 chip instead of the 21040, is this something
addressed in a later version of the driver (we're using a stock Red Hat 5.2
distribution)?

Thanks much,
Jason



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