The tulip driver does not correctly start my linksys card. On boot, where I normally would hear one click as it ifconfig'd up, I know hear two and the network is not running. A manual ifconfig eth0 up brings up the net after boot. I saw this problem in Mandrake 7.0-2 as well. dmesg output: Linux version 2.2.15-2.5.0 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sat Feb 5 00:28:02 EST 2000 Detected 333353820 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 332.60 BogoMIPS Memory: 127832k/131072k available (1112k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1628k data, 84k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 00 Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done. Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9cc PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: ST317242A, ATA DISK drive hdb: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28B, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: QPS CD-R PX-W8432T, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: ST317242A, 16446MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=2096/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 774.192 MB/sec p5_mmx : 821.817 MB/sec 8regs : 573.024 MB/sec 32regs : 326.517 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (821.817 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 > autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1) tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker.nasa.gov eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 17 at 0xf800, 00:A0:FF:FF:A1:66, IRQ 10. VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Try using the 'old_tulip' driver.
assigned to dledford
old_tulip does work. Seems to be an issue with tulip (new) on a linksys card. I can offer up my system for test if needed.
I have a similar problem with a Netgear FA310TX (rev D2) card. If the link goes away (ie. I reboot my other machine), I have to ifconfig eth1 down and ifconfig eth1 up to get the driver working again. The tulip driver from Netgear works, but it insists on logging all this extra crap to my kernel log so I'd rather use this one. Haven't tried old_tulip yet though - will do that tonight.
(updating an ancient bug) Can you try to reproduce with a current Red Hat or kernel.org kernel?
Outdated. Please file new bug report if this issue persists with current Red Hat kernels.