Re: Avanti network card config

["Brian E.W. Wood" <beww intac com>]

On 09-May-98 Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 8 May 1998, Brian Wood wrote:
> 
>> The SRM console has commands to set the card to twisted or AUI, the book
>> shows no command to set it to coax but seems to imply that AUI is
>> 10-base-2.
> 
>  set ewa0_mode Twisted-Pair

I tried that and it didn't work, but thanks for the suggestion.

I don't believe that my problem is with media selection. The activity LED
flashes and when I remove the coax cable it stops so it would seem to be
looking at the right connector.

I have tried both the tulip and the D4X5 drivers and both of them fail to work.

But the avanti-s kernel from RH *does* work. Sure wish I knew how they compiled
it. Even compiling from RH's source tree I can't get a kernel that
works(networking that is, everything else is OK).

One possibility is the reason the owner of this machine wanted the kernel
re-compiled is that he wanted aliasing, tunneling, accounting, syn-cookies and
AX.25 support compiled in. It is possible that one of these has not been
properly alpha-tized. I know that at least some of the amateur-radio kernel
stuff does not compile cleanly on the alpha.

I'd tell this guy to compile it himself but he is my employer :-)


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Brian E.W. Wood  beww@intac.com