Re: Going Crazy Here ... PLEASE help ...

Michael Dale Long (mlong@long.dyn.ml.org)
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 14:49:09 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:
> The terrible thing is that I had acquired this laptop for my company to
> test the possibility of using Linux+ssh for secure remote access to our
> private network. I have to give an answer to me boss by the end of the
> week. If I cannot get this resolved, I'm going to have to do what I REALLY
> DON'T want to: suggest Win95+Fsecure. I was ALL SET to give a positive
> report until this little situation occured.
>
> Please help. Any suggestions are welcome. Any comments are welcome. Any
> additional information is available.
>

Well, first of all if you are testing for the use of Linux in a critical
application like that you probably shouldn't be using the experimental
kernels at all. :)

I'd suggest trying the latest 2.0 series kernel. If it still produces the
same results and you're absolutely sure nothing besides the kernel has
changes, try contacting the developer of the driver for your net card. It
is possible that the new kernel set something in the card that it
remembers, and that Linux doesn't like (but Windows does, or can at least
cope with). I have no knowledge of laptop network card internals, but in
your situation it seems like a plausible hypothesis.

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