SMC 1255TX with Kernel 2.4.22

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:54:05AM -0700, gilles fourchet wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have an SMC 1255TX (in addition to an Intel eepro
> 100) on a machine that I would like to install as a
> firewall.
> I installed Debian (with the kernel 2.2.20) and my card
> is recognized via the tulip driver.  No problem.
> In order to take advantage of Netfilter, I have
> downloaded the kernel 2.4.22 to compile it.  No problem
> for the compiltation.  However, when I try to load the
> tulip module, it recognized a card which is definitely
> not an SMC and of course the card does not work.
> Just in case some of you ask the question: yes, I am
> sure it is an SMC since it is a brand new nic that I
> bought with the box :-).
> 
> I went today on the SMC website and it seems that they
> are providing the same set of file that the one we have
> with the 2.4.22 kernel (at least it is the same files
> names since I did not check yet the content).
> 
> Any idea?
> 
> Thanks for your help.

The tulip driver is changed a lot in 2.4.  Try the de4x5 driver perhaps.

Lennart Sorensen
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