I am experiencing the same problem as described by Edward. We are using a
motherboard that also uses the VP3 VIA chipset. It would be interesting to
find what your motherboard is using to try to track this problem down.
Thanks,
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Ricker <kaboom@gatech.edu>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Monday, December 28, 1998 8:01 AM
Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots - 2.1.132 and tulip 0.90
>On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 kernel@venus.ajusd.org wrote:
>
>> I recently bought a new NetGear PCI Ethernet card. It has the
>> crappy Lite-On tulip clone chip instead of the original DEC Tulip they
>> used to put on the board.
>>
>> When I used the tulip.c 0.90 driver from Donald's web site, the
>> card seems to work except that my computer spontanenously reboots within
>> 12 hours of use. There doesn't seem to be any warning or logs, just
>> suddenly the screen goes blank and I'm staring at the BIOS memory test.
>> This also happens on 2.1.131-ac10 and I even tried the v0.90f testing
>> version of the tulip driver.
>>
>> Does anyone else see this odd behavior on their systems?
>>
>
>I've got a similar card (same chip, different brand) that I've been using
>with v0.89H of the tulip drivers from Donald Becker's site. I've never had
>problems with that driver (current uptime: 11 days on
>2.1.131-ac-mumble-something-or-other), so you might try dropping back to
>that version.
>
>later,
>chris
>
>--
>Chris Ricker kaboom@gatech.edu
> chris.ricker@m.cc.utah.edu
>
>
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