Bug 53815

Summary:	Tulip driver fails to work correctly with DFE-570TX NIC.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Ben Greear <greearb>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Ben Greear 2001-09-19 15:37:17 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686)

Description of problem:
The Tulip driver does not auto-negotiate correctly with the DFE-570-TX
4-port 10/100bt NIC.  This driver problem was fixed in later kernels,
starting around 2.4.8 I believe..  Results of this bug are lots of
carrier errors and collisions on a link that should be 100bt-FD.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use DFE-570TX NIC with any auto-negotiating 100bt NIC/Switch.
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  Carrier errors & collisions:  Bad auto-negotiation

Expected Results:  Sweet packet pushing at 100bt-FD.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-09-19 15:39:28 UTC

Could you try the tulip_old driver instead ?
(should be included in the latest roswell kernels)

Comment 2 Ben Greear 2001-09-19 16:16:40 UTC

I can find no tulip_old module in the 2.4.7-2 roswell kernel...

For what it's worth, the kernel's tulip driver never worked for the
DFE-570TX 4-port NIC in the entire 2.4 series up untill about 2.4.8

Comment 3 Ben Greear 2002-06-21 23:09:38 UTC

The driver works fine in RH 7.3, so I'd consider closing this bug.