> On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 11:45:00AM +0200, Lech Szychowski wrote:
> > 2.3.18ac7 seems to break Tulip card detection here, too.
> > Replacing 0.91m with 0.89H (from plain 2.3.18) seems
> > to fix the problem.
Try the unmodified driver at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html
ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/
> tulip drivers always cause trouble, sigh!
> There have been three drivers evaluated with two different cards (and having
> the feedback from the customers ...), before shipping SuSE6.2
I test with over 30 unique Tulip card designs, including a dozen 21140 cards.
> Here are the sad results:
> old 2114x new 21143
> tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 starts dropping packets not detected
> after a while
There are many modified drivers using this version number, but dropping
packets isn't a common report.
> tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 OK not detected
>
> tulip.c:v0.91e 5/27/99 hanging on detection OK
I have not see any reports on the linux-tulip list about hanging during
detections -- this isn't a common problem.
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html
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