Re: DS21143 and BNC (10Base2)

[Konrad Podloucky <konrad pelimbert tssc univie ac at>]

On 28-Jun-2000 Phil Carmody enlightened me with:
[...]
> 
> Similar but different: 
> On a 164UX4/533, my 21143 refuses to work with the tulip
> drivers. I get no messages printed or logged anywhere, and the
> hub's 100/10 like lights are on. On switching to the de4x5
> driver (the tulip documentation recommends you switch im
> almost all cases to this driver) I am unable to use 100Mb, and
> from AUTO it reverts to 10Mb.
> When recounting this tale in the past some people said "some
> of the chips are flaky, when they work they're lovely - when
> they don't they're 'orrid. Just put up with it." or words to
> that effect.
> 
I had the same problem in an x86 workstation with a 21143 (I
believe it was a D-Link card, but I could be wrong). tulip would
refuse to work (although it seemed like it would; the link light
was on, but no packets came through) and I only got 10Mbs with
the de4x5 driver.
Seems like quite a beast to me!

Konrad

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