Re: DS21143 and BNC (10Base2)

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

Konrad Podloucky wrote:
> 
> On 28-Jun-2000 Phil Carmody enlightened me with:
> [...]
> > 
> > On switching to the de4x5
> > driver (the tulip documentation recommends you switch im
> > almost all cases to this driver)

Really?  Where?  It is likely pretty old if this is the case.

> > I am unable to use 100Mb, and
> > from AUTO it reverts to 10Mb.

Yeap!  It is really a small wonder that it works with 21143 at all.
It looks like that transmitters on your card have "backwards
compatibility" mode.

> 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.

Recent kernels have also 'old_tulip' driver.  Did you try that one?
This one is supposedly not needed in the really current 2.2 kernels
but with all variants of tulip cards floating around I would be
careful with that.