> Some clarification: Those of us who have had dreadful trouble with 3c59x.c
> driver are those with the 8k (I think) 3c590 boards, 10Mbits, with
My case :-(
> The alternative is 0.42 which by all accounts sounds like it has the
> stability _and_ the bus mastering capabilities..? Something needs to be
> done about the 2.0.30 driver, at any rate.
No, 0.42 has still the same bug with Boomerang (3c590) cards (not the
other 3com cards) even at 10 Mb/s. See the many messages on the mailing
list linux-vortex about that.
I didn't try yet 0.42n or other unofficial patches (which often disable
the bus mastering)...