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Re: NE2000 and 3C503 drivers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (eichin@mit.edu)
Wed Apr 26 22:14:26 1995
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 95 20:28:59 -0400
To: nelson@crynwr.com
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0s4BoP-000H90C@ns.crynwr.com> (nelson@crynwr.com)
From: eichin@mit.edu
> It's been broken since 1.1.13 at least. My NE2000-using machine has
> always crashed randomly, while my PC-Net/ISA hasn't.
Yeah, mine also does (only under ethernet load -- it stays up for
weeks running slip only, but doing a build over NFS is usually enough
to trigger a lockup in the NE2000 interrupt code (a whole-kernel, or
maybe even whole-system lockup, for which I'd always blamed my
motherboard [since it crashes under DOSEMU too, though it works fine
for everything else] until I got these patches -- it stayed up fine
through a few *days* of builds...)
I've only gotten version 2 of the patches installed, I haven't moved
to #3 yet, but expect to have the time to do so soon. I look forward
to seeing these changes (or similar ones) in a release...
_Mark_ <eichin@cygnus.com>
Cygnus Support, East Coast
