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>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:
>
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>
>>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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