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List:       linux-tulip
Subject:    D-Link 500tx c5?
From:       Juri P Pakaste <juri () iki ! fi>
Date:       1997-12-16 22:57:02
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Hi, has anyone got the tulip driver to work with revision c5 of
D-Link's 500tx? I'm having no luck with this. I've tried with both
0.79 (comes with kernel 2.0.32) and 0.86I. The card works fine in
W95. At the moment I don't have any other computers that I can connect
to, so I can't do much debugging.

If there's another device alive at the other end of the cable when I
create the interface with ifconfig, the link light starts slowly
blinking. If I try to ping the other end of the cable, results vary;
if it's a ZyXEL ISDN router, I get no reponse, and the packets don't
go out to the network. arp -a tells that the Prestige's HW address is
00:00:00:00:00:00. If I set it right with arp -s, the packets go to
the ZyXEL (it blinks its RX light), but I get no response. I've heard
the beast is slow in responding to pings, so this might be something
of an explanation (or perhaps not; but the replies come with no
problems with W95's ping.)

I've also tried pinging a friends laptop with a 3c589d; now, arp gets
the HW address right, but about 66% of the packets are lost. The
Thinkpad got some error messages like "timed out" or something when
trying to ping my computer with W95's ping.

My, and my friend's (whose judgement I trust a whole lot more in these
matters :-)) guess is that the driver has trouble doing
autodetection. ifconfig tells that the interface is 10Mb, and so does
the card's LED, though.

Suggestions (and especially solutions :-)) would be very much
appreciated.

(If you reply to the list, please Cc the replies to me, as I'm not
subscribed but read the list through the archive... I'll find the
replies there, too, but will get them a bit faster via email.)

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[ Juri Pakaste / juri@iki.fi / <URL:http://www.iki.fi/juri/> ] 

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