[tulip] ANA-6944A/TX and Linux 2.4.16 kernel

[Erik Heinz]

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 03:41:13PM +0100, Christian Birchinger wrote:

> 
> With the builtin tulip driver from 2.4.16 it locks the whole
> machine when 2 or more interfaces are configured
> (ifconfig ethX x.x.x.x) at the same time. 

This is a known problem. It's origin is - as far as I understood - a wrong
IRQ assignment in the BIOS. Up to Linux-2.2 the tulip driver has fixed
this. In Linux-2.4 the PCI subsystem deals itself with this sort of problems. 
Obviously, this does not work with the ANA-6944A/TX yet and at the moment
noone seems to be working on it.

> Did anyone here build the "tulip.c:v0.93 11/7/2001"-driver into a 2.4
> kernel it and can provide me information how to do this?

I did, but it will not help you. It's not the tulip driver's fault.


Cheers,
Erik

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