Re: tulip driver in 2.1.11* - 2.1.21 is broken - new driver

Aaron Tiensivu (tiensivu@pilot.msu.edu)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 12:39:01 -0400

> I was experiencing serious stalls in my 100Mbit network. Alan Cox gave
> me a pointer to a new version
> of the tulip driver (included) which works well for me.

I realize this probably has nothing to do with your problem but I figured since
we're on the tulip card discussion, I would ask this.

The Macronix-clone card support in the current drive (0.89H) seems to be
knackered pretty well. It will run good for a couple hours but then it will get
a packet that it seems to scribble into kernel memory, causing a rapid fire of
colorful graphics and chain-reaction OPPS that never make it to syslogd.

I've ended up swapping this card with my original SMC EtherPower and this box
(that I do e-mail/etc on) has been golden for the whole day. [shrug]

Otherwise the Macronix is a very robust card under other OSs, unfortunately for
Linux.

Model: MXIC MX98713 (rev. 0) 100/10Base PCI Ethernet

Anyone else having trouble?

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