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In article <cistron.Pine.WNT.3.96.981108205458.-98087B-100000@rick.scarychildren.net>,
Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca> wrote:
>Hi,
>Has anyone had problems with the SMC EtherPower II network card under
>linux?

Yes. With the 0.99 series driver.

>This card has some significant problems under NetBSD and FreeBSD
>which are apparently caused by bugs in the hardware. My card freezes up
>every now and then when in 10Mbps mode (with device timeout messages from
>the kernel), which can only be fixed by a power cycle.]

Compile it as a module, and unload / reload it, that'll do the job.
Or get an updated driver, see below.

>If it works fine
>under linux, I'm hoping I'll be able to compare the driver code to the
>NetBSD code and possibly fix the problems.

It has been fixed in later versions of the driver. 1.03 is pretty stable
and included with the latest 2.0.36pre snapshots from Alan Cox.
You can also get it from the URL mentioned in linux/drivers/net/epic100.c

Mike.
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