Re: tulip driver still broken

[Justin Guyett]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 [e-mail] wrote:

> I am currently using a Xircom Ethernet adapter (tulip_cb module) with a
> 2.4.5 kernel.
>
> The only way I have found to make it work is to turn on promiscuous mode
> (with 'tcpdump -i eth0 -n > /dev/null') after bootup. I can turn it off
> after a few minutes without problem.

i saw something like that with a wireless ethernet card, but presumed it
to be something wrong with WAP+multicast, plus it doesn't happen with new
card firmware.

at any rate, this made my card work, and sounds like it would be better
than running tcpdump and killing it after a few minutes.  the critical
element in getting things working was getting traffic while the interface
was in promisc mode (arp replies to wrong mac address maybe?)

ifconfig ethX promisc
ping -n -c 5 <pick a remote ip>
ifconfig ethX -promisc

if you have no traffic for a few minutes, it might break again.

justin