Re: ping fails under 2.1.39

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 21 May 1997 20:34:11 +0100 (BST)


> BTW does anyone seem bad crashes with NE2000 card installed?
> Looks to me like when I put ne2000 card in, it goes into
> 'solid rock' state sometimes. (Nothing except hard reset works).

Swap it for a better NE2000 clone. Its a problem that occurs with some
board/cpu/card combinations. Linux delays the I/O ops to the 8390 properly
but some boards mess they delays up and can lock the system hard