Re: New set of problems..

["Ricardo M. Oliveira" <maverick student dei uc pt>]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Michal Jaegermann wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:55:17PM -0500, Kurt Ludwig wrote:
> > since it's a slightly older rev DEC tulip card, you may want to try the
> > tulip, or old_tulip driver instead (I forget exactly which one it is in RH7)
> 
> Both.  It is up to you to pick one which fits.
>
	Well... tulip and de4x5 don't work...and I didn't notice any
old_tulip.o in the modules dir.. I'll check it out as soon as I can...
 
> Unless different ruffian boards have different models of tulip built-in
> then, AFAIK, this NIC works (on 2.2 kernels, forget about de4x5 for 2.4)

	That means it won't work with 2.4?

> with all three drivers, i.e. de4x5, old_tulip and tulip.  OTOH it seems
> to be very picky about what is on the other end of a wire and it may
> fail to negotiate (which implies that it will not work) with some hubs
> while this is peachy with other models.  These things happen _before_
> your driver even comes into a play.
> 

	In this case, I don't see where the problem might be, since it was
plugged in to the exact same place, no changes there...

	Thanks... I'll try to find that old_tulip module... I also forgot
to mention I'm running the kernel that comes with RH 7 (2.2.17-14).

-- Ricardo Manuel Oliveira