Re: need help to fix 3c905 problem, please!

glouis@consultronics.com
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:49:45 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Nathan Bryant wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Harald Koenig wrote:

> > there have been a number of reports at least for 3c905
> > (Boomerang) card owners who get driver lockups for very high
> > netloads (even one very fast host-to-host transfer is
> > sufficient) which result in lots of these kernel messages:
<snip>
> Just my US$0.02 worth: With kernel 2.0.30 and the 0.40 driver,
> I'm getting this problem without putting any kind of load at all
> on the card. I get these messages as soon as the system boots and
> I'm unable to transmit packets at all. Strangely, the card seems
> to work fine with kernel 2.0.29.

Try going back to the 0.30 driver? I've been running 905s on four
fastish machines since 2.0.30 was released, with nary a shiver.

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