[tulip-bug] Success and Failure with tulip_cb.o module with LinkSys PCMCIA ethernet card

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Thu Apr 11 19:09:03 2002


On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Michael Sparks wrote:

> This may be the wrong place to post this and if so, apologies...
>
> I have the following hardware:
>    * Lifebook P laptop
>    * Linksys PCPM200 PCMCIA ethernet card
>
> The two really don't want to talk to each other under linux.

This a problem with the driver you are using.  What version is it?
(It's not one of my releases...)

> Unless I run tcpdump in the background, in which case, they're a very
> happy threesome

The tcpdump problem puts the interface into promiscuous mode.

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