On Tuesday 10 September 2002 09:41 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 05:58 am, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > Jim Tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Monday 09 September 2002 05:56 am, you wrote: > > > > > Jim Tarvid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > A network.img from cooker 2002-05-09 works on a box where a > > > > > > network.img from rc2 fails. > > [...] > > > > > The differences are noted above but they are > > > > reverse name lookup on DNS succeeds on the old version > > > > the old version is pre10 instead of pre11 > > > > > > what difference? what are you talking about? the logs you show > > > are from a successful installation of the tulip driver, I see no > > > problem. what's your problem? please be descriptive.. > > > > The network does not come up > > Please give me the logs of the version for which the network does > not come up. > > > reverse name lookup on DNS failed (this succeeds on the 2002-05-09 cooker > > version) > > I'll have a look but the code has not changed.
Which is why I suspect it is the SiS/tulip interaction. The very same card works on a VIA motherboard > > > Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre11 (May 11, 2002) (pre10 March 8, > > 2002 on the version that works) > > > > Nor will it come up after a full install > > What do you mean? When you reboot the installed system, it > doesn't work? If it's the case, it's a driver problem, and I > don't see why you report this as a network.img problem :-(. > The two modules involved are tulip and af_packet but as I said above, they work on a VIA motherboard > > As I said in a later email, the tulip card works on a VIA motherboard > > (DFI AD70) but fails on a SiS motherboard (K7S6A). I was concerned > > because I have a lot ot tulips in boxes I am planning to upgrade to 9.0. > > I have relatively few SiS/Tulip combinations and I quietly ordered a > > couple of VIA motherboards to replace those if I have problems. > > > > rc1 installed on VIA/Celeron/tulip without incident. > > > > I am content to write off the K7S6A motherboard for a variety of reaons > > but I did run 8.2 on that board for months without incident. > > And if you use latest cooker with 8.2 kernel? Now that I haven't tried. I had a few ugly disk crashes on the 8.2 kernel which don't happen on the cooker kernel and I have little desire to revisit those. I suspect UDMA failure in those cases and cannot begin to prove it. I have had one Ext3 event on the 9.0 beta1 kernel but I wrote that off to power failure. It may be that ECS motherboards deserve their reputation. I was so amazed at the performance of the SiS boards that I was taken in. Whatever perceived savings or increased performance is more than offset by the time I lose in dealing with SiS. Jim Tarvid
