Re: Light-On pnic hang?

From: Roger Gammans (rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 08:16:43 EST


On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 03:27:48PM -0500, Will Sergent wrote:
> "Todd T. Fries" wrote:
> >
> > We have three machines all using the amd K6-3 and an fic motherboard using
> > the via chipset .. and when doing large ftp or other network transfers the
> > machines lock up until we bring the ethernet down and back up .. aka
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start

> Yes! Weve been having the same problem with a fileserver running on a
> k6-2 with an epox mobo and a netgear card that the redhat install
> program recognizes as a lite on. I was having problems with my desktop

I've hand some trouble with this NIC on 2.2.14 (you don't say want
kernel version etc you have), with the (new) tulip.o driver which
went away with the old-tulip.o driver. Can I suggest yo
try the old_tulip driver if your not already.

TTFN

-- 
Roger 

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