I tried to use 3c905 network card in an alpha machine and got
an infinite oops loop. It seems that this happens because of
the driver of the network card, since if I remove the card or
insert another one (PCnet32 - its driver is compiled in kernel too)
the oops does not happen.
Here is what the driver says on init:
eth0: 3Com 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0x8800, 00:60:08:55:8b:5d, IRQ 16
8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, MII interface.
eth0: MII transceiver found at address 24.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Then while booting it produces an oops and then infinitely dumps some data
on screen, so I cant see it. The messages were not written to log.
It seems that the oops happens on amd startup.
kernel 2.1.85, the driver in the kernel (v0.47H) and separately downloaded
(v0.49) behave similarly.
Alexander.
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