Re: bug in lance32.c driver for PCnet PCI II AM79C970A ethernet card.

Dr. S.K. Singh, from Birth Place of Lord Krishna ("Dr.)
Tue, 26 May 1998 14:38:41 +0530 (IST)


With Kind Regards.

Sincerely Yours

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Dr.S.K. Singh, Ph.D., Agril. Research Service, Scientist, (Sr. Sc), Animal
Genetics & Breeding, Central Institute for Research on Goats, Mathura.
UP. 281122, India.
email <sks@cirg.up.nic.in> <satendra_kumar@yahoo.com>
Ph.No. 0565-7-63325(O), 63334(R), Fax. 0565-7-63246
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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Dr. S.K. Singh, from Birth Place of Lord Krishna (Goat Institute) wrote:

>
> Dear hardworking friends,
>
>
> I installed Slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29) and upgraded to 2.0.33
> by compiling and selecting PCI Bios and PCnet PCI ethernet on. My
> P90 machine has 32 MB RAM, 2 GB SCSI HDD 3 PCI slots (used by SCSI HDD
> controller, VGA and Ether net cards) The PCnet PCI AM79C970A Ethernet card
> use irq 15 and detucted at boot time with irq and base add. as configured
> in DOS. The machine hangs as soon as 'ifconfig' coomand is issued by
> rc.inet1 file while booting. When I comment out 'ifconfig' command line in
> rc.inet1 file the machines boots but hangs as and when I issue 'ifconfig'
> manually. The driver used by eth card is 'lance32.c'. The machine is
> running without any problem with 'Compex ne2000' compitable ISA cardwith
> ip aliased local network.
> Any help please.
>
> With Kind Regards.
>
> Sincerely Yours
>
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> Dr.S.K. Singh, Ph.D., Agril. Research Service, Scientist, (Sr. Sc), Animal
> Genetics & Breeding, Central Institute for Research on Goats, Mathura.
> UP. 281122, India.
> email <sks@cirg.up.nic.in> <satendra_kumar@yahoo.com>
> Ph.No. 0565-7-63325(O), 63334(R), Fax. 0565-7-63246
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>
>
>

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