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Has anyone modified the tulip.c carried in the 1.3.35 kernels and above,
so that it actually works?

I have already tried falling back to the de4x5.c driver.  But the one
given in the 1.3.35 and later kernel source trees doesn't compile!  The
* never finished re-writing it properly!

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   Has anyone modified the tulip.c carried in the 1.3.35 kernels and above,
   so that it actually works?

   I have already tried falling back to the de4x5.c driver.  But the one
   given in the 1.3.35 and later kernel source trees doesn't compile!  The
   * never finished re-writing it properly!

Okay, I have been able to use both the tulip.c and the de4x5.c driver
that came with the 1.3.43 kernel. The tulip.c driver is version 0.05
and I was not able to get either the 0.07a or the 0.10 version of the
tulip.c driver (obtained from cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) working with
kernel 1.3.43. In kernel 1.3.45 *neither* the tulip.c or the de4x5.c
driver that came with the kernel would compile, nor would the tulip.c
v0.07a or v0.10 drivers. The *included* driver failed to compile due
to a multicast_list problem. The other tulip drivers failed to
compiled due to conflicting definitions for "init_etherdevice".

So my wonderful SMC EtherPower PCI card is stuck with kernel 1.3.43...

Just out of curiosity, *which* driver (assuming they compiled) would
have the better performance, the de4x5.c, the tulip.c 0.05, 0.07a, or
0.10 ? My machine is being used as a DNS server, web server, and a
file server so I need to have the best ethernet performance with the
least CPU overhead and fewest bottlenecks...

John

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:    Has anyone modified the tulip.c carried in the 1.3.35 kernels and above,
:    so that it actually works?

:    I have already tried falling back to the de4x5.c driver.  But the one
:    given in the 1.3.35 and later kernel source trees doesn't compile!  The
:    * never finished re-writing it properly!

: Okay, I have been able to use both the tulip.c and the de4x5.c driver
: that came with the 1.3.43 kernel. The tulip.c driver is version 0.05
: and I was not able to get either the 0.07a or the 0.10 version of the
: tulip.c driver (obtained from cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) working with
: kernel 1.3.43. In kernel 1.3.45 *neither* the tulip.c or the de4x5.c
: driver that came with the kernel would compile, nor would the tulip.c
: v0.07a or v0.10 drivers. The *included* driver failed to compile due
: to a multicast_list problem. The other tulip drivers failed to
: compiled due to conflicting definitions for "init_etherdevice".

  I had this problem with v0.1

  I commented out the line :

  #include <linux/etherdevice.h>

  at around line 43 of tulip.c and it now works fine. I don't even have to
  tell it I'm using BNC rather than UTP anymore.

: So my wonderful SMC EtherPower PCI card is stuck with kernel 1.3.43...

: Just out of curiosity, *which* driver (assuming they compiled) would
: have the better performance, the de4x5.c, the tulip.c 0.05, 0.07a, or
: 0.10 ? My machine is being used as a DNS server, web server, and a
: file server so I need to have the best ethernet performance with the
: least CPU overhead and fewest bottlenecks...

   I would have said, having used it for a while v0.1 is noticeably
   faster that v0.05.

: John

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: John Burton                      GATS, Inc.  


: (804) 865-7491 (voice)           (804) 865-1021 (fax)
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            Hope This Works.

                        Mat

PS I'm using kernel versions 1.3.4x

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