Re: Light-On pnic hang?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 09:16:23 EST


Roger Gammans wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 03:27:48PM -0500, Will Sergent wrote:
> > "Todd T. Fries" wrote:
> > >
> > > We have three machines all using the amd K6-3 and an fic motherboard using
> > > the via chipset .. and when doing large ftp or other network transfers the
> > > machines lock up until we bring the ethernet down and back up .. aka
> > >
> > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
> > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
>
> > Yes! Weve been having the same problem with a fileserver running on a
> > k6-2 with an epox mobo and a netgear card that the redhat install
> > program recognizes as a lite on. I was having problems with my desktop
>
> I've hand some trouble with this NIC on 2.2.14 (you don't say want
> kernel version etc you have), with the (new) tulip.o driver which
> went away with the old-tulip.o driver. Can I suggest yo
> try the old_tulip driver if your not already.

I am fighting this in 2.3.x, I want LESS tulip drivers in the kernel,
not more :)

-- 
Jeff Garzik              | My to-do list is a function
Building 1024            | which approaches infinity.
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       |

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Mar 23 2000 - 21:00:26 EST