Martin,
    They aren't really that old, but only recently, last 2 weeks, has the driver
been updated, with bug fixes that have capped a fairly reliable solution.  The
latest version is 0.91m, and it works nicely with the Asante 10/100, and also with
a Netgear 10/100 FA310TX.  They do have to be built as modules, but work with
2.2.6 & 2.2.10, and I believe on the 2.3.X, you can build it right in instead of a
module, just update the specified source files.

dave

Martin Costabel wrote:

Kazumitsu Hanai wrote (not for the first time):

quoted

All ethernet cards, the chipsets of which are DEC 21*4*, will work with tulip
driver in LinuxPPC.  *BUT*, be careful, the tulip driver contained in the
kernel
source, even the latest, is very old, and this driver does not work in
LinuxPPC
at all.  You must download the latest tulip.c, or at least newer than v0.91

Is there a known reason why the kernel sources contain a stone-age
version of tulip.c? Is everyone supposed to use de4x5 instead or what?
(I can confirm that for my Farallon card with its DECchip 21041, both
de4x5 from the kernel sources and tulip.c:v0.91 from the site given by
Kazumitsu Hanai are working. The Neanderthal tulip.c from the kernel
sources doesn't).

From the 2.3.18 kernel in drivers/net/tulip.c:

  static const char version[] = "tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98
becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov\n";

That's from the era of kernel version 2.1.103!

Even better is the "information" in Documentation/networking/tulip.txt:

  This driver is designed to work with PCI Ethernet
  cards which use the DECchip DC21x4x family. This driver hopefully
  works with all of 1.2.x and 1.3.x kernels, but I tested only
  with 1.2.13, 1.3.39, 1.3.49, 1.3.52, 1.3.57 and later.

Well, a little later it is honest enough to suggest

  So, if your card is not a 9332dst, please try the de4x5.c driver
first.

--
Martin

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