[tulip-bug] Bizarre tulip receive problem

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Paul Jones wrote:
> >On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Paul Jones wrote:
> >
> > >   My D-Link System Inc DFE-500TX Fast Ethernet card is having problems
> > > receive packets on a regular and timely basis.  For example here is the
> > > output of a ping command to a computer on my network
..
> >What driver version are you using?
> tulip 0.9.15-pre11
> 
> >What is the detection message?
> Oct 26 19:26:35 localhost kernel: tulip0:  EEPROM default media type 
> Autosense.
> Oct 26 19:26:35 localhost kernel: tulip0:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) 
> described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
> Oct 26 19:26:35 localhost kernel: tulip0:  Index #1 - Media 10baseT-FDX (#4) 
> described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block.
> Oct 26 19:26:35 localhost kernel: eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 
> 0xd800, 00:40:05:A0:0D:0C, IRQ 10.
..
> > >   I am running Redhat 7.3 with the 2.4.19 kernel.
> >
> >That's very likely your problem...
> How is that a problem?  I downloaded and upgraded the kernel from source.  I 
> compiled the driver into the kernel.

The modified driver distributed with the kernel is broken, and has been
broken for a long time.  You'll need to use the driver from scyld.com as
a module:

mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
cd /tmp/netdrivers/
ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
make
make install


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