Re: 3c59x Breakage: Anybody have any clues yet?

Shawn Leas (sleas@ixion.honeywell.com)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 17:30:55 -0500 (CDT)


On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Elliot Lee wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Shawn Leas wrote:
>
> > I really hate having to edit the 3c59x driver out of any patch I apply to
> > my 119 tree. So, I ask, has anybody even acknowledged the bug, and/or
> > looked at it?
>
> Would this happen to be a "see about every fiftieth packet that walks by,
> and ignore the rest" bug, or did I miss? I had this behaviour on a 3c905
> with 2.1.117, and I'm trying to find assurances that the card is still
> good :-)

This would be a no-network at all condition encountered after 2.1.119 (The
120-pre patches).

I've had good luck with the NIC up untill I saw 3c59x.c in the kernel
patch files. 8[

-Shawn
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