[tulip-bug] Bizarre tulip receive problem

[Gabriele Alberti]

Well, the scyld.com driver doesn't work neither.
dmesg:
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tulip.c:v0.95b 8/2/2002  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
  http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
eth0: Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) rev 17 at 0xcf832c00, 00:90:96:2A:19:FB, IRQ 11.
eth0:  MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7869 advertising 05e1.
eth0:  MII transceiver #2 config 1100 status 786d advertising 05e1.
eth0:  MII transceiver #3 config 1100 status 786d advertising 05e1.
eth0:  MII transceiver #4 config 1100 status 786d advertising 05e1.
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but after that, i get the usual ifconfig output with 0 TX packets
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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:96:2A:19:FB  
          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:142 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:284
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:50240 (49.0 KiB)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1c00 
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I'm going to surrender...

Regards,
	Gabriel

On Sun, 27 Oct 2002 21:17:06 -0500 (EST)
Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com> wrote:

> 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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