Subject: Re: Asante ethernet 10/100 problem
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jul 18 2001 - 13:07:19 MDT
At 4:28 PM +0200 7/18/01, Stefano Ballirano wrote:
>Inside /proc/pci it says:
>
>Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
> Ethernet controller: LiteOn LNE100TX (rev 32).
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 24. Master
>Capable. Latency=50.
> I/O at 0x800 [0x801].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0x80800000 [0x80800000].
>
>One question is: Why YDL recognise an Asante' card as another card
>(LiteOn LNE100TX) ?
LiteOn LNE100TX is the Ethernet chip. Asante doesn't design their
own chips, they just buy somebody else's. (Every so often they seem
to switch vendors; they originally used a true DEC Tulip, later they
switched to one kind of Tulip clone, and I think now they're on
another kind of Tulip clone.)
>So I've looked in the list archives if someone got the same problem and
>the result was that probably I need a new version of the tulip driver.
You probably need the tulip driver, period. I had difficulty with a
similar Asante card and it seemed to be due to YDL 2.0's 2.2.19
kernel being compiled with the de4x5 driver rather than the tulip
driver. I don't think de4x5 is very compatible with some of the
Tulip clones.
One thing you can try that's fast and easy is to install YDL's 2.4.4
kernel. For whatever reason, in that one they switched to the tulip
driver.
Tim Seufert
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