Tulip clone EEPROMs

[Nicholas Edwards]

Thanks for the tip, tried the new driver, but to no luck. I really think
this is a hardware problem specific to one of the cards, as the other
Macronix one works fine. Is there a way to clean up a corrupt EEPROM?

On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Nils Rennebarth wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 1999 at 10:20:20AM -0500, Nicholas Edwards wrote:
> > After loading .90 of the driver, I was finally able to get the Macronix
> > 98713 card working at 100baseTX-fd as well as my real 21410 Netgears.
> > However, only one of my two Macronix cards works. The second, upon loading
> > the module, recognizes the card as eth1 and it recognizes its MAC address,
> > but then it says, "EEPROM not present" and then it doesn't give the card
> > an IRQ.
> Try the experimental driver .90f. This cured the same symptom here,
> and the card now works fine.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
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