On Mon, 5 May 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > But in fact something working wrong :). As I wrote exchange
> > cyrix cpu on intel or isa ne2000 on amd pci has solved all my problems.
> > In a few days I will be able to test pci ne2000. If it will working
> > fine with cyrix, then the problem is isa delays. Are you agree? Should
> > I test other isa cards like 3com?
>
> The problem I would assume is with Cyrix ;) Although I've got messages from
> people who have ISA NE2K cards running fine with this chip.
>
I think that different BIOS-es use different cyrix initializations
(i.e. default optimizations). One of them may have incompatibility with
delay calculations for isa cards(?) in linux. May be the begining of my
problems is one of bios updates. Anyway I sure that the problem not only
in cyrix because there are not such promlem with dos or win/nt.
May be adding some code to kernel to identify cyrix and turn
on only those features wich working fine with linux, and turn off all
others is the best solution :) ?