Re: rtl8139 with 2.2.15

From: Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 18:40:50 EST


On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 08:51:43AM +0200, Manuel Lindauer <manuellindauer@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
> i have a little problem with my ethernet card. i use a nic with the
> rtl8139 chip, and under heavy load i sometimes get the following
> messages in /var/log/messages and after this the nic doesn't work for
> 1 or 2 seconds, but then i can use it as usual. I have a dual celeron
> system with kernel 2.2.15. I hope you can help. I think this problem isn't so big but

that crappy chip makes a lot of problems. you might try the slightly
updated version in the 2.2.17pre series or the most recent version by
Donald Becker (1.10). The latter one fixed most (but not all) of our
problems with that card.

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