Re: i hate my tulip based NIC card !!

[Larry Sendlosky <larry scrugs lkg dec com>]

> izaak wrote:
> I have several Digital 10/100 PCI nics that are 21143-PC based and SRM
> recognises them and they work beautifully.
> 
  Have you tried these 21143-PC based cards running at 100mbit/full
  duplex? We've had very bad luck with these at that speed. OTOH,
  the 21143-AF based cards work great, as do the 21140 based cards
  we've tried. The tulip based NetGear cards work for the most part;
  we've had sporadic problems with them (but at $20/card, can't
  complain too much).

> You can set all their features from SRM (i.e. full/half duplex, 10/100 bt,
> etc).  I have them in an AS200, in a UDB, and in a PC164 based system.
> 
  IIRC, setting the "mode" with SRM has no effect when running
  Linux. The console will set the mode and will apply if using bootp,
  however once Linux boots, the card is reset and Linux doesn't check
  the SRM environment variable. Somebody please correct me if I'm
  wrong.

  larry




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 Larry Sendlosky			 	            AMT
 larry@scrugs.lkg.dec.com (978) 506-6640                    Compaq
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