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Re: As 2.0 looms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Apr 29 03:19:48 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de (Martin Kraemer)
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 15:31:16 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604260947.AA02042@deejai.mch.sni.de> from "Martin Kraemer" at Apr 26, 96 11:47:18 am
> I have had problems using the LANCE driver on my (supposedly LANCE
> compatible) EXOS-105 card ever since. This driver isn't called alpha
Arghh.. I binned three of those because I didnt know they were lance cards.
> either if I recall it correctly. No, after it has started it runs
> perfectly fine. But the IRQ autoprobing never worked. I hacked it to use
> a predefined IRQ and DMA and had no problems since then. I just wonder if
> I'm the only person who experiences problems with this driver...
I get glitches (Arbitration errors) under very high floppy/tape load. Thats
just DMA eating all the bandwidth and stopping the controller getting in.
Have to mark the PC hardware alpha for that. If the EXOS is a lance board
maybe its an odd one, as the AMD PCnet/ISA boards seem rock solid. [except
the BOCA stuff and thats now well known to be a BOCA problem]
Alan
