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Re: Problems with smc8432 network card
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Mitchell)
Sat Sep 28 16:01:54 1996
From: "Graham Mitchell" <gmitch@woodlea.co.uk>
To: "Dipl.-Phys. M. Braun" <braun@itwm.uni-kl.de>, linux-smp@vger.rutgers.edu,
braun@itwm.uni-kl.de, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 06:16:53 +0100
Reply-to: gmitch@woodlea.co.uk
On 26 Sep 96 at 15:32, Dipl.-Phys. M. Braun wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I can't get a smc8432 PCI - network card to work with Linux 2.0.21
> (tulip driver). Symptoms are:
>
> 1) the card works under DOS.
> 2) it is found by the linux kernel
> 3) network activity results in kernel messages about choosing
> different ports.
> 4) Building a kernel without SMP - support does not make a difference.
I have problems with the tulip driver recognising my DLink DE530CT
when it's loaded as a module. However, if you build the driver into
the kernel image, the card is detected fine......
Graham
Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
