[mythtv-users] My HDHomerun stopped working with MythTV, but ok in Windows

[Ben Kamen]

On 05/15/12 12:55 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Kane Tse<kane.tse at gmail.com>  wrote:
> ....
>> The motherboard's on board Gigabit ethernet adapter was a Realtek, the
>> add-in PCI ethernet card now dedicated to the HDhomerun was a Linksys
>> (using the 'tulip' driver).  So to a certain extent, the scenario you
>> present is certainly a possibility.
>
> The tulip driver is for an older DEC designed ethernet
> chip 21x4x (the DEC assets were acquired by Intel
> at one point).  It also is well supported in Linux, and
> used in lots of (early) re-branded ethernet adapters
> (and was also widely used in some networking
> equipment).


Ahh, the old 21x4x chipset. I have a bunch of those in PCI format -- they worked like the dickens.

  -Ben