Ok, next theory:
I assume that the tulip driver is really broken (i have not looked into the source
code), but works for some cards,
so I'd like to hear what kind of Chips other 100MBit card users have.
On my System with a
Lite On Network card (OEM) with a LC82C168 Chip
(though driver says: Digital DS21143 Tulip at 0xb400, 00 48 54 00 97 f8, IRQ 9. )
the tulip driver worked very well.
> The Macronix-clone card support in the current drive (0.89H) seems to be
> knackered pretty well. It will run good for a couple hours but then it will get
> a packet that it seems to scribble into kernel memory, causing a rapid fire of
> colorful graphics and chain-reaction OPPS that never make it to syslogd.
What for a Chip is on the card ?
A Kingston 100Mb network card with a
21140-AF Chip with the _de4x5.c_ has the same problem you've described, though
it happens after 2-3 days.
I believed that it was a hardware problem but planned to switch
to the tulip driver, which should work for this card too, in order to find the
problem.
But with the answer of Linus I've decided to wait some time for a better driver.
Regards
Dietmar
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