Wrong driver loaded for Davicom ethernet card

[Vassilis Pandis]

Preface: I'm not sure this bug belongs here, please reassign if neccessary.

The wrong driver ('tulip') is loaded for Davicom ethernet cards. Apparently, Davicom is SEMI-compatible with the tulip driver, so it happens that everything appears to be functioning (it even shows up in network-admin) but it cannot get IP addresses from the router (dhcp). After several hours of hunting on google, I found out the solution here: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/suse-linux-help/60102-newbie-cant-reach-router-internet-2.html

to remedy it:

rmmod tulip
rmmod dmfe
modprope dmfe

I guess you need to remove the dmfe driver as well because some how the card does not get "allocated" to it, because it was presumably earlier "allocated" to the dmfe driver.

 lspci:
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip co mpatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 40)

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

This is on 6.06.

[Dominique Pellé (dominique-pelle)]

I had the same bug and submitted issue #48287:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/48287

I then stumbled upon your bug after a bit of research.
I applied the same command as you describe and it
also solved my networking problem.

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

Sorry for the dupe. I'm really happy this is fixed, good work guys :)

[Tomas Nilsson (tomas-nilsson)]

I had the same problem in Fiesty Fawn with a Dell Dimension 8200.
I will try the temporary solution this evening.

[maximi89 (maximi89)]

I have the same problem, i'm using Debian Testing.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=522592