Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
> No, he's not using the Linux kernel, but Russel's bootloader, which runs
> with data cache disabled, so this should not be an issue. I should put
> your hand on the chip's documentation, you probably lack some kind of
> initialisation (do you have a PROM providing the hw eth adress for
> example ? If you don't you'll probably have to set it up manually from
> the driver).

>From what I remember reading in the tulip driver, isn't the method by
which the media interface is selected very card specific and involves
magic numbers being poked into several registers?

I have seen some ethernet cards behave dead if the wrong type of media
is selected, and it sounds like this tulip is behaving in a similar way.
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