[tulip-bug] Problem with update

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

> I have a system with a DEC 21143 chip. It has been working fine
> with the tulip driver in linux kernel 2.2.14 (v0.91g-ppc).
> I have just updated the OS to one with linux kernel 2.4.13 (0.9.15-pre8),
> and the new driver no longer works with the same hardware.

This is a common problem.
You have a 21143 with a SYM transceiver.  The modified tulip driver in
the kernel didn't work through most of the 2.4 kernel series with the
21143+SYM.   You must use the driver from

 http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
    ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.c

> Both OS are Caldera Linux releases. The working one is eD 2.4, and the
> non-working one is OL 3.1.1. I don't think this is the issue, as the
> tulip driver seems unchanged in both.

You should ask Caldera why they are shipping non-working drivers...


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