Davicom DEC-Tulip compatible card doesn't work with dapper kernel 2.6.15-14

[pfarrell]

I upgraded to Dapper. Under the new kernel in dapper, my network card no longer works. It is mentioned in dmesg and ifconfig, but nothing actually works (pinging my gateway fails, for example). It works under dapper running the old kernel.

I'm not really sure how to help debug this. I'll attach the output of ifconfig and dmesg under the new kernel. I'd appreciate any suggestions as to how to help figure out what's going on. Thanks!

[pfarrell (patrick-farrell)]

Output of dmesg under the new kernel.

[pfarrell (patrick-farrell)]

Output of ethtool under the new kernel.

[pfarrell (patrick-farrell)]

Output of ifconfig. The interesting thing here is the number of errors:

RX packets:888 errors:235 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Under the other kernel the error count is 0.

[pfarrell (patrick-farrell)]

This also happens with the latest 2.6.15-18-686.

[Marc Higgins (mhiggins)]

bug in the driver for Davicom DM9102AF network card in Dapper

Device manger reports it as Davicom 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100

During installation it initially works & then subsequently fails as it downloads from the repositories. If your pull the network cable out & put it back it seems to restart it & it will download a little more & then stop again. Painful but I managed to do an install this way & an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade.

dmesg shows tulip_stop_rxtx() failed errors

This fixes it

rmmod tulip
ifdown eth0
rmmod dmfe
modprobe dmfe
ifup eth0

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=63161&highlight=davicom

[edalb (edalb)]

This also happens with the latest 2.6.15-19-686.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

Changing to "Major" since this will affect all users of Davicom ethernet cards with Dapper.

[Carthik Sharma (carthik)]

I can confirm this problem. The solution mentioned above works. This is with Dapper Flight CD 5