Re: tulip not working?

[Thierry Laronde]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:07:13PM +0100, Matt Bernstein wrote:
> We have a network of PCs which contain this version of the tulip NIC:
> 
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 
> [FasterNet] (rev 12)
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- 
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64 set
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
>       Region 0: I/O ports at e800
>       Region 1: Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> 
> ..yet neither of grub's drivers seem to load it. Any ideas?
> 

There can be two sources for the problem.
First one, after the detection of the PCI NIC, this part of the code calls
the driver "tulip" instead of the "otulip" one. Since the driver "tulip"
seems to verify that the card is one of his ones, and the tulip (I had just
a quick look, so take this at your own risk) driver doesn't support this
0009 DEC device, the driving fails.
Possible solution: compile with otulip and DON'T compile with tulip.

Second, there are slight differences, and the driver is simply unable to
drive the card.

But first, try `otulip' and please report success or failure.

Cheers,
-- 
Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France
http://www.cri74.org/