I recently obtained a B132L machine and have installed debian/stable on it. Everything went smoothly except for my second network card (PCI).
I must add that I can't be certain this is parisc specific, and apologize for my ignorance--I am running out of ideas (and net cards--the first one I tried uses a driver that doesn't compile under pa-risc (lance)). It's a very common card, with the 8139 Realtek chip on it. It loads and configures using the 8139too module. The low-level driver appears to be working as tcpdump indicates that it is seeing packets fly by, but something is broken somewhere. It doesn't respond to a ping, for example, even though tcpdump indicates the card has seen the request. When told to _send_ a ping, it sends one, and receives a response acc. to tcpdump. However, the ping program itself never acknowledges receipt. The built-in ethernet port works just fine when configured exactly the same way and hooked into the same private network. Has anyone here experienced a similar problem? Is there a list of kernel drivers somewhere that are known to _not_ work on parisc even though they may work on other platforms? Or is there something else I should be checking? Thanks, Brett Williams
