tulip ethernet driver problems

[Trevor Barton]

Chris Hipp wrote:
> I have a Netgear fa310tx rev. 2 chipset ethernet card.  Installation
> automatically configured and loaded the tulip driver for this card. 
> However, using this card causes my system to freeze hard (must be reset
> using hardware button.)  So much as pinging my computer kills it.  I
> switched to using the tulip_old driver and stability increased somewhat,
> it doesn't freeze instantly but eventually does.  This card worked
> perfectly in Redhat 9.0.  I have a clean Fedora Core 1 installation.
> 
> I need help resolving this problem or gathering more useful debugging
> information.

There is a thread "FC1 pcmcia network card failure" in which I and someone else 
have had problems with a Netgear card - a different card and different problem 
but the same driver.  This was resolved by removing the graphical boot option by 
setting GRAPHICAL=no in /etc/sysconfig/init.  There may be a problem where some 
of the memory used by the ethernet card is later reused by X, which in our case 
was stopping the card from working.  It's equally possible that that could kill 
the machine.  Try that solution and see if it works.

Trev

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