AsanteFast 10/100, Tulip driver & 2.4.22g

[David Wadson]

I have a bunch of Power Mac 4400/200 that I'm wanting to install YDL 3.0.1 on. They don't have any onboard ethernet but instead use AsanteFast 10/100 PCI NICs using the Digital 21140 chipset. The machines generally work OK but ifconfig shows lots of TX errors on them:

RX packets:6184983 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3453 errors:2633377 dropped:0 overruns:4 carrier:5266754

Thinking that the Tulip driver included with YDL 3.0.1 is a little bunk, I've tried compiling a new driver using the source from www.scyld.com/tulip.html, assisted by  instructions from :

http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/yellowdog-general/november99/0234.html
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2002-April/000249.html

But so far I've been unable to get a driver that works. I get as far "insmod tulip.o" and then I get a nice kernel panic. I'm wondering if perhaps this driver and/or NIC just isn't going to work with a 2.4.x kernel as any instructions I've fo
und reference 2.2 kernels. Has anyone compiled this driver with anything newer or had any experience with the AsanteFast cards?

Dave Wadson
IT Manager
The Chronicle-Journal