Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Jim DiFronzo" <> | | Subject | Re: Spontaneous reboots - 2.1.132 and tulip 0.90 | | Date | Thu, 31 Dec 1998 11:20:21 -0700 |
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Chris,
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 > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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