Hi,

i have tulip network card in my computer. Well, maybe not original tulip, i dont know. There are two drivers> de4x5 and tulip.
My card reports itself as in lspci:

Code:
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
numerically 1011:0019 (rev 30)

boot detection identifies it as de4x5, and loads driver. but when it reaches dhcp section, it does print eth0 found, running dhcp... Then instead of (backgrounded) it hangs whole machine. If i changed scripts a bit, and with debug mode removed de4x5 driver and loaded tulip, all was fine. I think i used to run under de4x5 driver also some years before, but havent tried it since. What i am sure is, tulip at least on my machine works better.

Full lspci report
Code:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 10)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
0000:00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 10)
0000:00:07.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30)
0000:00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 2 (rev fa)
0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 30)
0000:00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97] (rev 08)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] (rev b2)

lsmod
Code:
Module                  Size  Used by
md5                     7680  1
ipv6                  238016  6
snd_mixer_oss          18304  0
snd                    46820  1 snd_mixer_oss
sis_agp                 9988  0
intel_agp              22300  0
efficeon_agp           10144  0
amd64_agp              13640  0
ali_agp                 9216  0
autofs4                19076  1
af_packet              24328  0
tulip                  50592  0
ntfs                  163600  0
ext3                  123912  0
jbd                    65572  1 ext3
es1371                 34752  1
gameport               15496  2 es1371
soundcore              11104  3 snd,es1371
ac97_codec             20236  1 es1371
via_agp                11392  1
agpgart                i2c_core               20992  1 i2c_viapro
parport_pc             38724  0
parport                33480  1 parport_pc
8250                   42844  0
serial_core            21120  1 8250
joydev                 11712  0
tsdev                   9664  0
evdev                  11008  0
usbhid                 42464  0
pcmcia                 23696  0
yenta_socket           22152  0
rsrc_nonstatic         14080  1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core            43268  3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
video                  18308  0
thermal                14984  0
processor              24520  1 thermal
fan                     7300  0
container               7296  0
button                  9104  0
battery                12420  0
ac                      7556  0
rtc                    13900  0
unionfs                68088  1
cloop                  19232  2
sbp2                   24584  0
ohci1394               33460  0
ieee1394              297432  2 sbp2,ohci1394
usb_storage            68544  0
ohci_hcd               21764  0
uhci_hcd               31632  0
usbcore               102492  5   usbhid,usb_storage,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd
I havent found where exactly it detects network driver, so i cant post patch myself. Maybe it will help to others.