Re: 3c59x on Dell OptiPlex motherboard, and 3c900 driver

Tom Brown (tbrown@baremetal.com)
Wed, 8 Jan 1997 00:35:45 -0800 (PST)


On 7 Jan 1997, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> While I'm at it, has anyone had any experience with the 3c900 support in
> the new vortex driver? I need to get Linux up with one of those, too.

I've had trouble with the 3c900 locking up... I've got a watchdog program
that looks for 60 second periods and ifconfig eth0 down ... ifconfig eth0
up when it happens (it's a busy box with several programs spitting out
pings at 10 second intervals)... There's been a tiny change to the driver
(increasing a timeout if I'm not mistaken) since I built that kernel, but
given the "hard" nature of the lockup, I don't expect it to be the silver
bullet... I'm looking for recommendations on a good PCI ethernet card ...
I'm not running 100BT so that capability is a moot point.

(2.0.25 system, BusLogic SCSI, redhat 3.0.3 build, P166/80 meg RAM)

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