As to lspci, I did take your advice but the results seemed to tell me nothing useful. Here they are is. Maybe, you will see something interesting:
>From 2.2.20-idepci 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter (rev 11) Subsystem: Accton Technology Corporation: Unknown device 2242 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1c00 Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 >From 2.4.18 (compiled by me) 00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Accton Technology Corporation EN-1216 Ethernet Adapter (rev 11) Subsystem: Accton Technology Corporation: Unknown device 2242 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 I still tend to think the problem is with what the configuration is doing *after* tulip gets set up --- right where I would have thought things would be running the same for both kernel images. Can't claim I have much relevant experience to support that intuition though. J Adrian Zimmer www.ossm.edu/~azimmer azimmer -- dot -- ossm.edu >>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/29/03 10:13AM >>> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 09:35, Adrian Zimmer wrote: > No, no; ifconfig says the interface is up and running with both > kernel images. Obviously *a* tulip module is installed (one way > or the other). Happens to be two different ones. > > I compiled tulip in to 2.4.18 whereas I don't know how the prepackaged > 2.2.20-idepci worked. I'd kinda like to try the driver that shipped with > 2.2.20 but I don't know how to answer configuration questions to get it > insted of the driver I now have compiled into 2.4.18. > > I don't know the driver in 2.4.18 is malfunctioning; I know only > four things that seem relevant: > ifconfig is happy; > netstat only reports success with 2.2.20-idepci not with my > compiled 2.4.18; > the base addresses used by the two tulip modules are different; Maybe this is an issue for the tulip*.c maintainer? You've looked at lspci, right? > > the configuration files the two kernel images are booting under > are the same. > > (Of course, the configuration files ask for different things because of > what they find in the /proc directories but that is a fact I don't know > how to exploit in tracking down my problem.) > > J Adrian Zimmer > www.ossm.edu/~azimmer > azimmer -- dot -- ossm.edu > > > >>> Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/28/03 10:47PM >>> > Adrian Zimmer wrote: > > with 2.2.20 I get > > > > eth0: Accton EN1217/EN2242 (ADMtek Comet) rev 17 at 0xc6022000, 00:D0:59:24:04:C0, > > IRQ 11. > > eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 786d advertising 01e1. > > > > whereas with 2.4.18 I get > > > > eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x1c00, 00:D0:59:24:04:C0, IRQ 11. > > Googling and then looking at the tulip_core.c driver shows that the > tulip driver is used with this card. > > Did you compile the tulip driver into your kernel? Or did you compile > it as a module? If as a module did you load the tulip driver in > /etc/modules? If you are using the Debian tuned kernels then > everything is compiled as a module and you will need to include tulip > in /etc/modules. > > Bob -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian | | because I hate vegetables!" | | unknown | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]