Albrecht Jacobs (aj@klee.architektur.uni-stuttgart.de)
Sun, 25 Apr 1999 14:34:15 +0200 (MDT)
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >
> > I am running 2.2.6 on an UX2. No known kernel problems until now. BUT
> > tulip.c is a problem for me and many other UX users.
I must correct myself: not the driver (tulip.c) is the problem but this
strange 21143 chip (apologizes to Don Becker).
> Build-in tulip on UX is indeed a PITA. It is quirky. On some boards
> it does work, on other it refuses to cooperate. Also there is a bunch
> of UX boards out there which appear to have an incorrect crystal
> for ethernet (wrong type).
Mine says 'SUNNY' which seems to be ok as someone on this list stated.
> The current version of a tulip driver is 0.91 and it seems to be
> a bit better. If your built-in ethernet really does not want to
> work the best solution I know at this moment is to add an extra
> ethernet card (even tulip and they can be found rather cheap) and
> use that instead. These problems are not likely to change with
One of the reasons we bought this board is onboard ethernet! I thouhgt of
UX as some kind of 'high end'. I will complain about this at my dealer.
What does Samsung say to this situation? Or does this beast work fine
under NT, True64Unix and OpenVMS?
> a kernel version. The driver is exactly the same one in 2.0
> and 2.2 kernels and you can always drop in another version of it
> without affecting anything else.
I am currently running 0.90q. Autonegotiation for full duplex doesn't work
correct and sometimes (seldom) the link is totally lost without any error
messages.
> On eb64+ I do have have a tulip card, but with 21140 chip.
> Currently one can see it as:
>
> tulip.c:v0.91 4/14/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip rev 34 at 0x8000, 00:60:67:32:6B:E9, IRQ 18.
>
> and it works very well. OTOH this does not say very much as this
> particular tulip card never had any hiccups with any driver from
> 0.89h up.
>
There is a 21140 on an other card and I am sure this will work fine but I
need this interface too (later).
On some D-Link cards in other boxes the tulip driver(don't know which
version) works fine!
Albrecht
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