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SubjectRe: 2.0 kernels, tulip driver, crashes and reboots (long)
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...
;-}

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