> it is a DE500AA (21143) based card and it is recognised by the tulip driver. > I can ping it's ethernet address from the server but cannot communicate with > the rest of the network. > The diagnose program (tulip-diag from Donald Becker) says it is working. > Some test program called windows NT could communicate. > But I use Linux. > > can you help ? try this, make sure its built as a kernel module, , boot up the machine normally, and then shut off the network. (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop. on redhat 5.x machines), then "rmmod tulip", wait about 10 seconds, and then "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start", check to see if you can ping out. ( wait about 30 seconds (the driver will switch from 10Mb to 100Mb to try and find an active port, and takes a little time..) I have a pair of DE500's that require this probe, rmmod and re-probe sequence to behave properly. Dave J. Andruczyk Linux Systems Admin Buffalo State College
