Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2001 09:38:38 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1 |
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:54:13AM -0400, Ben LaHaise wrote: > I doubt it's related to pump: a few times I've seen the 3c59x driver drop > the first few transmit packets. Try loading the driver as a module and > putting the whole modprobe ; ifconfig ; ping <somehost> set of commands > into a script and watch what happens. This goes for all ethernet driver > writers.
Is this a change of requirements for ethernet drivers? Many other drivers do exactly the same (drop the first few packets while they're negotiating with a hub), unless they're using 10base2, even back to the days of 2.0 kernels.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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