[tulip] Always require second ifdown/ifup after reboot

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Sun Feb 16 11:26:01 2003


On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Adam Kessel wrote:

> 00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] (rev 25)
> 
> tulip is compiled into the kernel (Debian unstable/linux 2.4.20).  
> 
> Oddly, every time I reboot, I need to ifdown and ifup to get the card to
> work.

What driver version are you using?
What is the detection message?

> This problem seems quite similar to one from five years ago:
> http://www.beowulf.org/listarchives/linux-tulip-bug/1998/09/0007.html
> which was never resolved as best I can tell.

It was resolved years ago, but the driver you are using likely one that
split from my development years ago.

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