Re: i hate my tulip based NIC card !!

["Izaak Bozof (INS)" <izaak bozof ins com>]

no, i've never tried to run them at 100btFD.  i only mentioned the SRM 
settings to show that they are fully supported by the SRM -- you still have 
to set the card features inside linux right now.

how hard would it be to have ifconfig look at the srm variables?

izaak

At 09.30 a 9/2/99 -0400, Larry Sendlosky wrote:
> > 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
>
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>  Larry Sendlosky                                            AMT
>  larry@scrugs.lkg.dec.com (978) 506-6640                    Compaq
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