Subject: Re: anybody own a multi-port TULIP card?
To: Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/20/1999 16:50:56
Yes.
I will test it tonight, if possible. I have a somewhat strange setup
at home, though, in that all the interfaces appear on the same IRQ
anyway, due to a overpopulation of lame ISA cards, and that our pcmcia
driver isn't polling for insertion events and eats an extra IRQ.
Chris Jones <cjones@rupert.honors.montana.edu> writes:
> I have a PR in (6852) which works around a bug in an ethernet card I
> have. It's a 4-port TULIP card made by Comdex. The patch in the PR
> appears to work just fine on my board, as well as on at least one
> single-port tulip board. The patch has been committed to -current.
>
> However, it'd be really nice to see it in 1.4. In order for that to
> happen, we could really stand to have this patch get tested on a
> multi-port TULIP board on which the various TULIP chips *don't* share
> the same IRQ. If anybody out there would be willing to do that, and
> then let Curt Sampson know, so he can submit a pullup request, I would
> be very grateful.
>
> Chris
>
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