[ale] Connecting with SUSE 10.0

[Terry Bailey]

I am running a dual boot with XP but I don't see how that would effect 
anything.

Would it help to install another driver?  I see, by running the find 
command, that tulip is always a directory. If I could find another driver, 
how would I install it?

I have a friend who is running SUSE 10.0 on a newer machine and he is 
having no problem.  I guess that the driver for his chip set is OK.

I am running a 2.0 gig Dell  which is about 3 years old.

The NIC is :

         Davicom 21x4x DEC-Tulip 10/100 Ethernet

The Hardware Configuration Name is:

         bus-pci-0000:02:09.0




At 08:16 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:

>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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