Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Feb 1997 17:00:52 +0000 (GMT) | From | Miguel Armas del Rio <> | Subject | Weird thing with 3C900 |
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Hi there!
I'm setting up firewall at my University using a Pentium 166/32Mb and two 3c900 ethercards. I've had two major problems here... first, when there is high network load, I get a "Transmitter access error" message, and the card hangs until I reboot the machine. I've been looking around in the driver code and there is a message saying something about a bug in the card. Is it really a design problem?
Ok, that was the first problem, now comes the weird part... One day the terminal started getting trashed (the letters got fuzzy). I thougth it could be a virus or some kind of attack, but I checked the system using tripwire and it didn't detect any change. After a lot of headaches and wasted time, I discovered that when I unplug the 3c900 and use another card, the problem desapair. If I use another card, but the 3c900 is still plugged, the problem remains...
Does this makes any sense? Should I throw the 3c900 to /dev/null? Any suggestion would be appreciated...
THNX! PS: Sorry for my english ;)... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Miguel Armas del Rio kuko@cic.teleco.ulpgc.es ETSI de Telecomunicaciones http://calvo.teleco.ulpgc.es/ Universidad de Las Palmas PGP public key available (11/1/97): Spain finger kuko@calvo.teleco.ulpgc.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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