I'm seeing a similar problem with the Xircom Realport card
which uses the 'xircom_tulip_cb' driver.
Workaround:
Putting the card into promiscuous mode seems to get it going again.
If feels like (but I haven't investigated further) the ARP table isn't
being updated properly.
This was discovered by finding that running 'tcpdump' on the interface
make it work again.
-- I (was) using 2.2.17 - which had problems you mentioned (different module). 2.4.0-test9 has the same problem. --Paul Schulz (pschulz@foursticks.com.au) Foursticks Systems
"J. S. Connell" <ankh@canuck.gen.nz> writes:
> Any time I disconnect and then reconnect the ethernet cable from my Netgear > FA310TX cards, the card appears to not notice and doesn't reestablish the > link. Under 2.2.17pre4, the link light comes on, but until I do ifconfig > ethX down; ifconfig ethX up, the kernel ignores any traffic on that > interface (tcpdump on both an affected machine and a nonaffected machine > show the kernel ignoring all incoming traffic, and not sending any traffic > out.) Under 2.4.0-test9-pre7, however, when I reconnect the ethernet > cable, the link light does _not_ come on, and nothing short of a reboot > will bring it back up. > > I'm currently stuck at 2.2.17pre4 because I need André Hedrick's IDE patch, > which won't apply (except manually) to later 2.2 kernels, and my attempts > to apply the patch manually have ended in kernels that fail during boot. > > In this system, eth0 is connected to a 10/100 Asanté FriendlyNet 8-port > switch, and eth1 is connected to an RCA model DCM205 "digital|BROADBAND" > cablemodem. >
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