[tulip] AutoNegotiation problems with D-Link DFE-500TX and D-Link DFE-570TX

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Frank Mikkelsen wrote:

> I seem to have problems with the tulip driver and autonegotiation on
> D-Link DFE-500TX and D-Link DFE-570TX network interface cards.

Correction: with the tulip driver in 2.4.12.

> System setup:
> Mandrake 8.0 with separately compiled kernel version 2.4.12
> tulip module built from the development sources version 1.1.8
>
> How do I solve this?
> I know that I can alter the startup scripts to force renegotiation, but
> that is not a pretty solution.
> Is this a bug in the tulip driver? Any way to get around it?

This is a bug in the 2.4.12 tulip driver.  Try
   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html

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