Tulip network card not connecting in 7.3?

[Matt Galster]

That's what worked for me, too, David.  de4x5!  So, is this the same as "old_tulip"?

MEG

Bill Bogstad
> Brian Medley wrote:
> >On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, David Kramer wrote:
> >
> >> The kicker is this- I noticed that the light for that channel on my hub
> >> is not on under Linux, but it is on under Windows.  Note that the light
> >> on the back of the card is on under either OS!!
> >>
> >> dmesg says (again, from scribbles, not cut/paste):
> >>
> >> So my primary suspition is that the problem is the media type, but
> >> there's only one connector.  I assume the second one is full duplex, but
> >> that won't work since I'm going into a hub which goes to the intranet
> >> card on my firewall box.  The firewall box is a Red Hat 7.0 box that I am
> >> building this box to replace.  This box will be my new firewall when it's
> >> working (I'll re-tweak the network settings).
> >>
> >> Any thoughts?  Anything I can try?
> >
> >I had to set my network card as half-duplex so that it would function
> >correctly with our current switch.  Mine would also "just work" under
> >windows.  I use mii-diag from 'http://www.scyld.com/diag/'...
> 
> I had a similar problem when I upgraded from RH 7.0 to 7.1 on my home
> machine a while back.  I found that using the alternative driver for
> that chipset (de4x5 driver) solved my problem and let me run 100/full.
> I'm guessing that whatever changes were made to the tulip driver going
> from RH 7.0 -> 7.1 are still in there and still causing problems.
> 
> 			      Good Luck,
> 			      Bill Bogstad