[tulip] An interesting problem...

[Bobby Parker]

Hi,
I'm using a Linksys LNE100TX card Wake-On-Lan version 2 card. According
to linksys, I should be using the supplied driver on disk, and the
driver DID load, however...I got higher error rates than I did with
using the kernel-supplied driver.

While the driver DOES load ok with the Linux 2.4test7 kernel driver, I
get heavy RX errors and frame errors, very slow throughput, and constant
"link-partner capability negotiations" even when I force the card to a
specific mode. I AM connected to a hub, so the card should be running @
half duplex.

ifconfig output:

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3171 errors:504 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:599
          TX packets:2958 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:8



This is the ADMTek comet chipset.

dmesg output:

Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.9 (August 11, 2000)
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x5000, 00:20:78:1C:A3:A2, IRQ 10.

lspci -v output:

01:03.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev
11)
        Subsystem: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0574
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
        Memory at c6ff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

Question about the kernel driver for the 2.4.test7 kernel...is that the
latest? The driver version claims 0.9.9 August 11....but I want to know
if the "test version" of the driver provided at
ftp.scyld.com/network/test/tulip.c is more recent...mod date in the file
says 8-19-2000...What's the difference? Major? minor? Might this fix the
problem? How stable is the "test" driver anyway?

Has anyone else had ANY kind of success with the "new" LNE100Tx cards at
all?

BP
shortwave@knight-hub.com