>> As soon as I type "ifconfig fddi0 <std. flags deleted for brevity>
>> up", the whole machine works for about 30 seconds to a minute, then
>> crashes.
Alan> Oh dear, that shouldnt be happening. I've no similar reports for
Alan> the FDDI card so it could be a hardware dislike. Does the card
Alan> behave under other OS's
I have a box here at CERN with the same board and I have not seen this
behavior either. In fact my machine is very stable and the FDDI
performance is really good, so I'd suspect that it may either be your
particular board or something else in the machine which causes trouble.
>> Oh, one more thing: the MAC address field on the FDDI card after
>> ifconfig is extremely long, but looks sort-of valid. Do FDDI cards
>> have wierd MAC addresses, or is this really one of the symptoms of
>> a hardware or software conflict, as I would normally assume?
This is wrong, you'll need some updated net-tools for it to look and
behave correctly.
Alan> Probably the slackware net-tools are out of date or not built to
Alan> include FDDI pick up a current set off ftp.uk.linux.org (1.32
Alan> you want) and include FDDI. This has no bearing itself on the
Alan> crash however
To my knowledge the official net-tools archives do not contain FDDI
support, at least the 1.33a archive I've got here doesn't have it
in. I do have some patches for this which I intended to submit earlier
but never got around to it, you can email me directly if you want a
copy (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch).
Jes