Re: Lite-On ethernet controller

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Re: Lite-On ethernet controller

From: Josh Huber <hidden>
Date: 2000-05-31 20:32:10

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:10:56PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Later the card seemed to work fine with the updated tulip driver, as you
probably remember.  However, I just got a problem with the updated driver
(2.3.99-pre3) for the first time:
[snip]

After updating to the newer tulip driver in the devel kernels, my problems
with my real tulip card went away.  I've been having trouble getting two
other cards working however -- the lite-on card that I mentioned before, and
another tulip clone (Kingston).  The kingston card was much worse -- it
dropped ~30% of packets under light load, and completely locked up under
medium-heavy load.
Note that Josh is using a similar box as me, a CHRP LongTrail. In fact all
people with LongTrails seem to have problems with Tulip chips. So it might be a
motherboard problem.
Yeah, which would be unfortunate... :(

Josh

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Re: Lite-On ethernet controller

From: Jeff Garzik <hidden>
Date: 2000-05-31 20:45:20

Josh Huber wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 10:10:56PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
quoted
Later the card seemed to work fine with the updated tulip driver, as you
probably remember.  However, I just got a problem with the updated driver
(2.3.99-pre3) for the first time:
[snip]

After updating to the newer tulip driver in the devel kernels, my problems
with my real tulip card went away.  I've been having trouble getting two
other cards working however -- the lite-on card that I mentioned before, and
another tulip clone (Kingston).  The kingston card was much worse -- it
dropped ~30% of packets under light load, and completely locked up under
medium-heavy load.
quoted
Note that Josh is using a similar box as me, a CHRP LongTrail. In fact all
people with LongTrails seem to have problems with Tulip chips. So it might be a
motherboard problem.
Yeah, which would be unfortunate... :(
That would REALLY suck because I was looking forward to throwing my PNIC
and PNIC II test cards into this old PMac 7200 which I use for testing
drivers on PPC.  If it is a general endian bug in the PNIC* codepath,
testing there should hopefully expose the problem.

If not, I have a feeling Josh and I will be exchanging e-mail... :)

	Jeff



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Jeff Garzik              | Liberty is always dangerous, but
Building 1024            | it is the safest thing we have.
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       |      -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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