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SubjectRe: Linux-2.0.31 - the Saga Continues...
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On Friday 15 August 97, at 11 h 45, the keyboard of Jon Lewis 
<jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net> wrote:

> > after a brief time (anywhere from a few hours to one minute) it gets
> > infinite loop in interupt messages and doesn't see the net anymore...
> > sometimes ifdown, and theen back up will reset it, sometimes a cold
> > boot is required...
>
> Was the system transfering lots of data when the card locked up? If so,
> this may not be a new problem. Several people have seen similar problems
> with the 3c509 driver for at least serveral kernel versions. Ususally it
> only affects 486's though.

No, Pentium hit the bug, too, at least for the Boomerang cards.

The only solution seems to be the UNOFFICIAL 0.42x driver (currently, x =
o):

http://www.desy.de:8888/~sieversm/boomerang.html


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