Donald Becker wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, A James Lewis wrote: > > Cc: tulip@scyld.com, linux-net@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [tulip] Most ethernets record? > > > > > > Did this work properly since I tried Znyx 4 port tulip cards and they sort > > of work but there's loads of collisions and poor performance. It works > > with SUN QFE cards though so I guess theres a problem in the tulip driver. > > Please don't make a general claim that "there's a problem with the tulip > driver". > > The Tulip driver from ftp.Scyld.com works fine with all Znyx cards we > have available for testing, and has for several years. Actually, I was never even able to get my ZYNX 4-port (346Q) card to work correctly in full-duplex mode, even under the older 2.2 kernels. As recent as the 2.2.19 kernel, the D-LINK 4-port cards did not do auto-negotiation, or even fixed 100bt-FD correctly (I had to force them to 100bt-HD, which thankfully worked, at least.) If by working fine, you mean passing traffic enough to ping, or do low-bandwidth stuff, then they work. But they do not work at high speeds, and the have speed-negotiation problems.. I have a new D-LINK on the way, and still have two ZYNX boards, so I am willing to try again with the 2.2 drivers if you think they are fixed now. Please recommend a version + kernel-version. Unfortunately, regardless of the 2.2 functionality, I will have to stay with 2.4 kernel, because it has so many other benefits that I need, but if the driver works in one kernel, maybe we can figure out why it fails in 2.4. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear@excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
