Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 May 1998 19:19:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | "Andrea Dell'Amico" <> | Subject | Re: oh woe, oh woe, oh woe is me... [2.0.34p16 + 3com] |
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, Donald Becker wrote:
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I've gotten many good reports about the reliability of the current driver with both the 3c905 and 3c905B. There always at least one person that will swear up-and-down that the driver has a problem when something else in their system is actually the problem. I don't know how many times I have sent a one-line "Don't use 'gated'" response to angry messages about my drivers.
Sorry, I have a 3c905 and it crashes regularly with every kernel I try. My distribution is a redhat 4.2, without gated or anything similar. With kernel 2.0.34pre16 and the driver compiled as module, I regularly have a panic when a level 0 dump runs on the machine:
skput:over: 001922d4:232
That address is between:
001920a8 t boomerang_rx 00192480 t vortex_close
Another problem, with the pcnet 32 driver (2.0.34pre16): if it's compiled as module, I can regularly crash my box simply doing a
tar cf remotehost:/dev/st0 /
When I compile the driver into the kernel I have no problems.
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences. Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771 301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html
Regards, andrea
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