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Re: .62 networking no so good?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philip Blundell)
Thu Feb 15 14:52:57 1996
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:25:03 +0000 (GMT)
From: Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
To: Russ Berry <berry@larry.wizvax.net>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9602141413.AA06266@larry.wizvax.net>
On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Russ Berry wrote:
> In mlist.linux-kernel you write:
> >I seem to have the same, only my box is p75, ide drive, using EtherExpress
> >to connect to local net of Suns. Sometimes after lockup and crash, there
> >will be messages about cable problems, input buffers, and various other
> >references to eth0. Haven't quite figured it out yet, but this shouldn't be
>
> This is quite normal for the EtherExpress driver included in the kernel.
> It seems to only work "normally" with 486/33 computers and slower.
> There's a reason it's called "ALPHA". Take a look at:
> http://www.threethirtysix.org/~schuyler/snorgen/
>
> For a couple of alternate drivers which may work for you. Neither of
> them help with Linux on my P-90.
I have a modified version of one of these drivers (John Sullivan's) which
works for me under 1.3.x. I still get 'CU wedged' messages from time to
time, and lockups very occasionally, but it's an awful lot better than it
used to be. When I get time I will tidy it up a bit further -- the
initialisation code is still suspect to say the least.
Mail me if you want a copy. I have moved this thread to linux-net (from
kernel) since it's more appropriate there.
P.
