Netgear ethernet cards no longer Tulip

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Donald Becker wrote:

> CESDIS got a box of ten in yesterday (ordered in May for summer students!).
> They are relabeled PNIC-169 chips.
> 
> > > After a very long discussion yesterday with a large group of linux people,
> > > we discovered that it appears Tulip cards are being discontinued, en
> > > masse.   This is very disturbing as they're the best supported card in the
> > > kernel, by far.  The only one left I can locate is the DFE-500TX (not the

Well...as long as the FA310TX keeps using the chip it's using now:

  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor LNE100TX (rev 33).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
      I/O at 0xb400.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe2000000.

tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xd000, 00 a0 cc 39 1a 2f, IRQ 12.
eth0:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 1000 status 782d.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1.
eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xb800, 00 a0 cc 39 1a 23, IRQ 10.
eth1:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 1000 status 7809.
eth1:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1.
eth2: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xb400, 00 a0 cc 39 1a 30, IRQ 11.
eth2:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 1000 status 7809.
eth2:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 01e1.
eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to full-duplex, CSR6 812e0200.
eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.
eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to full-duplex, CSR6 812e0200.

these cards seem to work fine.  Just get the updated driver from Don's web
site.  With v0.88, I was just getting:

Sep  1 07:42:22 echo kernel: tulip.c:v0.88 4/7/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Sep  1 07:42:22 echo kernel: eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xd000, 00 a0 cc
39 1a 23, IRQ 12.

and could not send/receive packets.

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