If it's a netgear card you may have to use the special version of the
tulip driver that came on the floppy accompanying the card. At some
point, Bay Networks stopped using the DEC chipset and started using a
different chipset to emulate it. After switching to the driver off the
disk, everything worked fine.
jacob walcik
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On Sun, 9 May 1999, Justin Ryan [PHT] wrote:
> hey guys, I bought this cheapo NIC at a computer show today for my new
> dual pro system, and it turned out to be a tulip card, I've had trouble
> getting it to work but because I've heard so many good things about Tulip
> cards on linux I decided to hang onto it.. here's the problem, when I
> power on the system, I have a link light just fine.. once the tulip driver
> is loaded, it dies.. the eth0 interface is configured, all looks fine in
> ifconfig except that it shows transmit errors:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:90:BD:27
> inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast 192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packers:0 errots:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packers:0 errors:73 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:146
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:18 Base address:0x8000
>
> as compared to on this normal machine (my k6-2 w/ the RealTek 8139 in it)
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:4F:4E:01:DD:D3
> inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:6790 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:7342 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:1 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe800
>
> so basically, the bad machine has 0 for everything except errors and
> carrier, where the normal machine has 0.. how can I figure out what those
> errors are, if I even can,and do you guys know what might be the problem?
>
> -Justin
>
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