Re: VIA Rhine timeouts

From: Jurriaan (thunder7@xs4all.nl)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 00:42:58 EST


From: Alon <alon@gamebox.net>
Date: Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:20:09AM +0100
> Hi,
>
> I am suffering from what a quick Google search has shown
> to be the infamous netdev watchdog lock in Rhine NICs,a
> although in a somwhat different way from most cases I've
> seen reported. Instead of failing under heavy load, my card
> (in fact, an onboard chip in the ECS L7VTA-L motherboard)
> completely refuses to make a connection under 2.4.x kernels.
> I tried all releases between 2.4.18 and current 2.4.21-pre5
> to no avail. The driver provided by VIA at their site
> fared no better.
>
This driver has been worked on recently in the 2.5.x kernels - can you
try 2.5.65?

HTH,
Jurriaan

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