Re: Ethernet Timeouts, 3c509 & SMP 2.1.123

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 16:15:33 +0200 (CEST)

On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:
> To which I said, "Then why doesn't the other computer that uses a Ne2k
> clone have this happen?"
>
> To which I received dead air.
>
> I finally gave up and bought a 5 pack of NE2k ISA clones (I needed them
> anyway), slapped one inside my computer and voila! It fixed it.
>
> There is a bug in the drivers, but no one believed me even though I
> thought I could prove it.

Another possibility is a bug in the 3c509 chip, for which the driver has no
workaround.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium






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