Re: 2.5.1-pre11 de2104X tulip driver problem

Johan Kullstam (kullstam@ne.mediaone.net)
13 Dec 2001 17:57:13 -0500


"really mason@soo.com" <lnx-kern@Sophia.soo.com> writes:

> Just a tulip driver bug report:
>
> i'm one of those dinosaurs using a 10base2 network and really
> old DLink-530 21040 and 21041 based ethercards.
>
> This is what a recent kernel version (2.5.1-pre10) working
> tulip driver prints out when booting up:
>
> kernel: tulip0: 21041 Media table, default media 0800 (Autosense).
> kernel: tulip0: 21041 media #0, 10baseT.
> kernel: tulip0: 21041 media #4, 10baseT-FDX.
> kernel: tulip0: 21041 media #1, 10base2.
> [...]
> kernel: eth0: Digital DC21041 Tulip rev 17 at 0xe0800f80, 21041 mode, 00:80:C8:3E:D0:BC, IRQ 12.
> [...]
> kernel: eth0: No 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to AUI.
>
> Card still works on my 10base2 network even tho i haven't got
> an AUI port on the ethercard.
> ======================================================================
>
> This is what the non working 2.5.1-pre11 tulip driver prints out:
>
> kernel: de2104x PCI Ethernet driver v0.5.1 (Nov 20, 2001)
> kernel: de0: SROM-listed ports: TP
> kernel: eth0: 21041 at 0xe0800f80, 00:80:c8:3e:d0:bc, IRQ 12
> [...]
> kernel: eth0: set link 10baseT auto, mode 7ffc0040, sia 10c4,ffffef01,ffffffff,ffff0008
> kernel: set mode 7ffc0000, set sia ef01,ffff,8
>
> ====================================================================

i have a DEC DE450 (based on 21041 AA chipset). i guess, for
2104[01], tulip driver has been broken since 2.4.4 (yes, that's over
six months of brokeness). yes, jeff garzik knows about it. i've
emailed the list and sourceforge &c.

rememdies --

0) buy a new network card.

1) use the de4x5 driver instead.

2) use the older tulip driver 0.9.14. download it from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/tulip/

if you go with 2, just download. have /usr/src/linux be your linux
source (or a symlink to them). go into tulip-0.9.14/src, make dep,
make. then copy tulip.o into /lib/modules/2.[45].X/kernel/drivers/net/tulip
which replaces the kernels one.

best of luck.

-- 
J o h a n  K u l l s t a m
[kullstam@mediaone.net]
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