Re: 2.2.6 (with ac patches?!)

Sten Eriksson (sten.eriksson@udac.se)
Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:22:09 +0200


Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> > - One D-Link DFE-500TX (tulip) running at 100FD
> > - Thursday, friday and today (monday) the network card just
> > stopped shuffling packets like it was physically unplugged.
> Which driver are you using? We had problems like this with the tulip
> driver, so we switched to de4x5 and networking has been trouble-free
> since then. (This is 2.0, though, so YMMV.)

Hmm, isnt the de4x5 quite antiquated, is it even up to 2.2 standard?!

Alan Cox wrote:
> That sounds like a driver problem of some sort.

Yes, we thougt so too, we thougt we try some more elaborate testing the
next time it fails (ie. we will re-configure our router not to use the
machine as a trans-proxy) and really try to dig down, our network
HW-guys thougt that maybe the switch was to blame, similar problems has
been known to happen on other switches.

> Are you using the tulip or the de driver ?

Uh?! the D-Link DF500TX has a true DEC 21140 Tulip with a MII interface,
and yes I use the "drivers/net/tulip.c"-driver (as a module).

---
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0x7000, 00 80 c8 6c 94 fc, IRQ 5.
eth0:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0:  Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1)
block.
eth0:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 0, config 0000 status 780d.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0, previously advertising 0001.
eth0:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0 (0).
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII Xcvr #0 parter capability of
41e1.
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