tulip driver & Asante Fast 10/100 card

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Bob Farmer wrote:

> The net cards we've been buying, Asante Fast 10/100, recently switched
> from 21140A chips to the PNIC chips.  On startup, the driver reports the
> chip as a "Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32".  It works for a bit, but as soon

What's the whole detection message?
Is the an MII transceiver, or does it use the internal encoder and an
external twister (SYM PHY)? 

> as you try to transfer more than about 50K of data through the card, it
> locks, and the interface has to be taken down and brought back up again to
> restore connectivity.

What kind of motherboard?  Old 486 systems are known to have bugs that
can be worked around with a csr0=0x01a04800 setting.


Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, and
USRA-CESDIS,   becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov