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I've gotten many good reports about the reliability of the current driver
with both the 3c905 and 3c905B. There always at least one person that will
swear up-and-down that the driver has a problem when something else in their
system is actually the problem. I don't know how many times I have sent a
one-line "Don't use 'gated'" response to angry messages about my drivers.
Sorry, I have a 3c905 and it crashes regularly with every kernel I
try. My distribution is a redhat 4.2, without gated or anything
similar. With kernel 2.0.34pre16 and the driver compiled as module, I
regularly have a panic when a level 0 dump runs on the machine:
skput:over: 001922d4:232
That address is between:
001920a8 t boomerang_rx
00192480 t vortex_close
Another problem, with the pcnet 32 driver (2.0.34pre16): if it's
compiled as module, I can regularly crash my box simply doing a
tar cf remotehost:/dev/st0 /
When I compile the driver into the kernel I have no problems.
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
Regards,
andrea
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