> tulip follow-ons DO WORK. tulip
> clones DO WORK (and since the linux driver is fixed, they work just as
well.)
... snip...
> what do you expect, silver platters? are there actually any current tulip
> nics that don't work?
Well.... I actually disagree on this point. They work fairly well, but
I've had no end of problems with many different tulip cards - leading me to
believe it's the driver.... I've used Kingston (21140, now 21143), Znyx
(21140 and 21143), and Linksys (PNIC) cards and I've experienced similar
*frustrating* problems with most all of them.
The cards (and driver) work great - as long as the media-type stays
constant. However, as soon as you start switching speeds, duplex, etc.
everything falls apart and all kinds of intermittent problems start cropping
up. The interface comes up, but no data transfers, the data and link
lights blink, but no data transfers, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Unbelievably frustrating! I'm not much on device drivers and such so
debugging the problems is difficult for me - but I'm learning quick. Donald
provides some good tools to figure out what's going on, but....
All I can say is that we used 21140's for two years along with the
tulip-0.89h (and earlier - stock with kernels 2.0.3x) drivers and never had
any problems. Now, with .90x and newer and the mix of 21143's and clones
thrown in, we're pulling our hair out.
> Intel definitely makes register-level documentation
> available, which is all that the Linux community can/should ask of
vendors.
Yes, I agree that Intel's online - and freely available - specs are greatly
appreciated. And certainly above-and-beyond what most others provide.
Kudos to Intel on that.
Regards,
Kevin
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