Re: ethernet cards

[Cloudmaster <sauer@cloudmaster.ml.org>]

On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, mike packard wrote:
> My ethernet card (it's a Linksys Tulip-based) seems to be working fine
> for awhile, then all of a sudden the card gets incredibly slow for no
...
> On a different machine with the same type of card I keep getting this in
> my logs:
> 
> Apr  7 13:47:07 demeter kernel: eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to
> 	half-duplex, CSR6 816e0000.

I brought up one of my machines last night with a netgear 10/100 card that's
tulip based.  It kinda works, in that it sends and recieves stuff.  But, I
get those same resettig messages occasionaly, and it won't configure itself
via DHCP.  It broadcasts, gets an offer, sends an ack, and then requests
again.  It keeps waiting longer and longer between requests, never actually
accepting the suggestion, even after I gave it's MAC a static entry.  So I
set it up manually, and now I can ping local machines by IP but not by name
(although resolve.conf is set up right), and when I run route, it (route,
not the machine) hangs on the second line of routing info.

I could've sworn that people say tulip cards are some of the best ones to
use under linux.  I'm beginning to doubt that, as I've never had a problem
with any realtek / KTI generics or 3com / intel expensive cards.

Anyway, if anyone gets any new ideas...

--Danny


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