More on AMD Lance driver. What will help?

Kurt Fitzner (kf_bulk@nexus.v-wave.com)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 17:32:10 -0600 (MDT)

I've been going through the AMD Lance ethernet driver, trying to see exactly
where it is broken. It is sure, though, that it is broken. Somewhere
between 1.3.20 and 2.0.1 is where it happened (I'm still tracing down the
exact patch that broke it). Simply untarring a file where both the source
and destination are on an NFS mount causes packets to be dropped so bad, that
the machine can't see the NFS server any more. It's not a faulty card,
cabling, or interference with anything else on the bus. I've tried varrying
OS, motherboard, and ethernet card. The one thing where the problems always
show up is Lance card, Lance driver, Linux 2.0.1 or greater.

Anyways, I can go on at great length on exactly what the symptoms are (and
will if it will help someone). I'm trying to wade through the
source to see if I can fix this, but I'm coming of the opinion that this may
be too much for me to tackle as a first kernel project. My question is,
what will help someone? I'm willing to spend the time to pin down the exact
kernel version where the driver broke, if this will help, or anything else
that might assist.

Meanwhile, I'll keep plugging at the source.

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