[tulip-bug] Linksys LNE100TX bug

[Huy Duong]

Hi,

I just wanted to report a bug in the tulip driver for
the Linksys LNE100TX card.  I am not subscribed to
this list so if any developers need more info, please
email me directly.

I have v4 of the Linksys LNE100TX.  My linux box is
used for ip-masq.  This is the box:
AMD K6-233MHz
32MB RAM
3GB hard drive IDE
ATAPI CDROM
2 x Linksys LNE100TX NICs

I compiled the driver directly into the kernel.  I
made the appropriate changes in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/Makefile and copied
tulip.c, pci-scan.c, pci-scan.h, kern-compat.h to
/usr/src/linux/driver/net
Compilation was no problem whatsoever.  I added the
following line to lilo.conf
append="ether=0,0,0,eth1"

When I rebooted the system with the new kernel, it
detected 8 network cards (eth0 to eth7).  Obviously
there is only two cards in the machine.  If you check
the boot up messages, eth0=eth2=eth4=eth6 and
eth1=eth3=eth5=eth7
So it was detecting each card multiple times and
assigning them an ethX device.

I didn't think much of it at first, but my linux box
would crash after running for a fefw hours or so.  And
it would crash hard.  I had to reset the system
without a proper shutdown because even the keyboard
would not respond.

Anyhow, I have recompiled the kernel without the tulip
drivers in the kernel.  The tulip driver is loaded as
a module now on bootup and  it correctly detects only
two cards.  So far the system has been up for 1.5
hours without incident.  Hopefully it will continue to
do so.

Huy


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