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Re: Tulip/EtherPower netcard problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thayne Harbaugh)
Thu Jul 25 13:04:27 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 18:13:48 -0600
From: Thayne_Harbaugh@lardav.com (Thayne Harbaugh)
To: connorsm@ficus.cs.ucla.edu
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
connorsm@ficus.cs.ucla.edu wrote:
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Hi,
I have two PPros in my network with SMC 8432T EtherPower cards in them.
They both load up properly and seem to work fine with the other computers,
but they don't talk to each other. I can't ping from one PPro to the
other, but I can go to another linux box or Sparc station and ping both
from there.
I was able to get them to talk to each other when I had a Slackware 3.0
kernel running them, but this failed when I installed the 2.0.0 kernel
and even with the 2.0.8 kernel.
Here is some information:
Card: SMC EtherPower 8432BT (PCI)
Machine: PPro with Intel Triton chipset and onboard NCR53c810 controller
% dmesg | grep -i tulip
tulip.c:v0.10 8/11/95 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
+0.72 4/17/96 http://www.dsl.tutics.tut.ac.jp/~linux/tulip
eth0: smc8432 (DEC 21041 Tulip) at 0xe880, 00:00:c0:76:6a:db, IRQ 10
Thanks in advance,
Mike
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I just finished doing a linux-2.0.8 upgrade at an ISP (lvinet.com) and they had
the SMC 8432BT. I used the EISA/PCI DE4x5 driver and edited the
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/CONFIG file and added -IS_NOT_DEC to the options line
- things came up fine (they wouldn't without this). The cards are in Gateway
P120's - I'm not sure about using the tulip driver or PPro's (although I hear it
works).
Thayne Harbaugh
