I had the same problem with -pre5 and my Tulip card. AFAIK the problems
are specific to -pre5. I have one of the older Netgear cards with an
actual Digital-branded chip.
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Vince Weaver wrote:
>
> I had 2.3.99-pre5 running for 2 weeks, it ran great for me.
>
> There was a power glitch today though, and though my 486's handle them
> fine, my K6-2 rebooted [yeah I know, I should get a UPS].
>
> Anyway, while rebooting I thought I'd try -pre6 which I had compiled a
> while ago, but never booted.
>
> It worked, but I came across the horrible memory performance everyone goes
> on about.
>
> So I rebooted back to -pre5, but now my [PNIC] tulip card won't
> work. It floods my poor hub with collisions until it partitions it off.
>
> It doesn't matter how many times I rmmod/insmod tulip, ifconfig, or reboot
> my computer or the hub, nothing.
>
> But if I reboot back to pre6, it works fine.
>
> So somehow -pre6 made it so my tulip won't work in -pre5? Is that even
> possible?
>
> I can see there were some changed made to the tulip stuff in -pre6, but
> nothing that should cause something like this. Does anyone have any
> ideas?
>
> I've often had problems with this stupid Lite-on card, but usually a
> rmmod/insmod would fix it.
>
> Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.4.3 (Apr 14, 2000)
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 17 at 0x6c00, 00:A0:CC:21:25:00, IRQ 12.
> eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
>
> The errors generated are of the standard
> Jan 1 00:35:06 hal kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status 02260010,
> CSR12 0000003f, resetting...
>
> type [ignore the Jan 1 thing.. I have a non y2k bios it seems and it
> thinks it is 1997 when I reboot, and with the network card down it can't
> find the ntp server]
>
> any ideas?
>
> Vince
>
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