[ale] Connecting with SUSE 10.0

[James P. Kinney III]

Pinging the NIC doesn't use the driver. You are touching the software
layer above the driver.

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 19:36 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
> I can ping the NIC (e.g., ping 192.168.1.100).  Should I be able to ping 
> the NIC if the dirver was not working?
> 
> 
> 
> At 03:23 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 14:48 -0400, Terry Bailey wrote:
> >
> > > When I run dmesg, every line is:
> > >
> > >          tulip_stop_rxtx( )  failed
> > >
> >
> >This line shows that the tulip driver is having some problems. I would:
> >
> >a. make sure that is the correct driver
> >b. see what happens if the driver is unloaded and then reloaded.
> >c. get a different NIC. The tulip  driver is for a really old chipset
> >that was notoriously buggy.
> >
> >
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