[lug] 3c905b-TX

Gary Masters gmasters at devcg.denver.co.us
Thu Sep 16 06:33:16 MDT 1999


On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, George Sexton wrote:

> I had some problems with a 21143 running on Dec Alpha and RH 6.0. The final
> solution was to download the latest tulip.c from the web. I went to Donald
> Becker's web site and then there was a link to somewhere else that had a
> more current version. I forget where. The one thing I noticed is that the
> card (or driver) seemed to require a full-duplex Ethernet connection. When
> plugged into a cheap 100BT hub we had lots of problems. We then plugged into
> a nice 3COM switched hub and everything started working great.
> 

On my DPW600au, which has the 21143, I have had the best luck using
the de4x5 Ethernet driver.  Half or full duplex. 10 or 100 Mbps, it
just works.

--
  Gary Masters
  gmasters at devcg.denver.co.us




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