Re: DS21143 and BNC (10Base2)

[Olle Hansson <olle hansson home se>]

* Konrad Podloucky (konrad@pelimbert.tssc.univie.ac.at) wrote:
> 
> 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
Hi again.
I have tryed whith the de4x5 driver, and it seems to work fine whith 10BaseT
(TP)

But when i try to user 10base2 (BNC) it says incorect media bla bla.

It work perfectly in WindowsNT. I think the de4x5 driver has some buggs :(

/Olle Hansson

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