> >...
> One fairly minor suggestion: Get the latest tulip development drivers
>
> (0.76 and/or 0.77) from
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip-devel.html
>
> and compile it as a module, not into the kernel. I'd recommend
> getting the "tulip-probe" diagnostic tool from this same site and
> reading the various docs on tricky configurations.
>
> You should be able to specify options and possibly the irq on the
> insmod line. In this way it may be possible to differentiate between
> the two cards and force one to be eth0 and the other eth1. In your
> boot messages below, it almost looks like it is trying to load both
> cards as eth0 and this may be bollixing up the load.
>
> I use KNE-100's here (under 2.0.30) on P6DNF's, and I've also observed
>
> a fairly rare but nasty initialization bug. In some cases the cards
> are not properly initialized by the initial insmod tulip. One can
> ifconfig the device, but if one probes the card all the registers are
> ff's, in particular the last byte of csr5. HOWEVER, if one ifconfig's
>
> the interface down, rmmod the module, insmod the module, and ifconfig
> a second time, the interface comes up perfectly and works like a charm
>
> thereafter. This may be fixed in 0.77 -- I think that somebody posted
>
> a fix to a minor bug that caused the cards to lock up when their
> packet counts reached the maximum value, and those ff's make me think
> that the cards might have been coming up in the max'd out state.
>
> Now, I don't use two tulips but I have run a tulip and 3c905 (both on
> the PCI bus at different interrupts) at once. And yes, you are wise
> to go with two tulips (I think). Even running 3c59x.c 0.42n (the
> absolute latest 3c905 driver) I get lockups in almost no time when I
> hammer the card receiving. On the good side though, they've finally
> got the transmission speed up into the 93 Mbps range -- a bit slower
> than the tulips but quite acceptable.
>
> Good luck,
>
> rgb
>
> P.S. -- you might cross-post this to linux-tulip. It may not be an
> SMP problem per se...
>
> Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/
> Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305
> Durham, N.C. 27708-0305
> Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb@phy.duke.edu
Robert,
Could you send me the pointer of the newest 3C905 driver? I need to
speed up
my network connection badly.
-- Qiru
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