Tulip network card not connecting in 7.3?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

The Tulip driver is possibly broken. You should download and build a new 
one.
 http://www.scyld.com/ is where Donald Becker maintains the drivers. 
David Kramer wrote:
> NB: since I don't have 'net these messages are from memory.  This is an 
> old box with known-working hardware, reformatted and dual-boot win98SE and 
> Red Hat 7.3.
> 
> In short, ifconfig looks good, tulip module is loaded (card is DEC 21041),
> route looks good, ipchains is opened wide up, and when I boot the computer
> into Windows (shudder), it works.
> 
> ping/telnet/host, etc say "Destination host unreachable".  I tried pinging 
> my gateway by IP and got the same thing.
> 
> 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):
> tulip0: 21041 media table, default media 0000 (10baseT)
> tulip0:  21041 media #0, 10baseT
> tulip0:  21041 media #4, 10baseT-FDX
> eth0: Digital DC21041 tulip rev 17 at <foo>, 21041 mode, X:X:X:X:X:X, IRQ 
> 9.
> 
> 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?
> 
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