Re: network problems with 2.0.33 and epic100 ethernet card

Rob van Nieuwkerk (robn@verdi.et.tudelft.nl)
Sun, 18 Jan 1998 16:37:01 +0100


Hi Dany,

> After an uptime of 7 days it was suddenly dead over ethernet.
>
> ICMP redirect from 195.64.68.1
> double unlock on device queue!
> double lock on device queue, lock=255 caller=00138521
>
> what i did was:
>
> ifconfig eth0 down
> rmmod epic100
>
> insmod epic100
> /etc/init.d/network
>
> and all worked well over ethernet again
> Anyone have any ideas ?

We had similar problems with a SMC EPIC/100 (although I don't know if we
got that message). All our problems went away since we upgraded to a
newer version of the driver available on:

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/epic100.html

Greetings,
Rob van Nieuwkerk