Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 03:34:30 +0100 | From | Stefan Traby <> | Subject | Re: 2.0 kernels, tulip driver, crashes and reboots (long) |
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Hi Alan !
On Sun, Jan 10, 1999 at 04:00:04AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> The older tulip driver blows up under certain memory conditions (fixed > by 0.89H) when certain variants get overlarge packets (fixed in 0.89K > I believe) and when some clones hand back crazy size reports (ditto). > > 0.90 seems to work very well unless you have a VIA chipset.
0.90 does definitely _not_ work on AlphaPC164UX (aka Ruffian) boards in any 100MBit mode. 0.89H does.
So please don't use tulip 0.90 for VIA chipset dedecting... ;-}
-- ciao - Stefan
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