[tulip] Tulip Problem with 2 Linksys TX100 NIC's

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, hanasaki wrote:

> The tulip version is the one that comes with Kernel 2.4.17
>  From tulip_core.c
> #define DRV_VERSION     "0.9.15-pre9"

Yup, that's significantly modified from what I release.

> The tulip driver is able to get a ip from the Cable Modem service 
> (RoadRunner) if
> 	- ifdown externalNIC AND internalNIC
> 	- rmmod tulip
> 	- ifup externalNIC
> Failure:
> -----------
> ifdown externalnic
> ifup externalnic

This hints that the driver you are running only works the first time
that it brought up.  Try the driver from
   http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
   http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html

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