> I'm having troubles with PCI network drivers on a
> PCI 486DX2/66 computer (ALI chipset). I've tried both
> the tulip v0.90 driver with a Macronix 98713 and
> rtl8139 v1.04 with a Realtek 8139 card. Both drivers
> start up fine, but cease to operate after a few
> packets. They can be recovered by ifconfig down/up,
> but it's not terribly funny to do this every couple of
> packets 8-) NB: I was using a crossed patch cable
> to connect the cards directly to a DEC Tulip card,
> and the cards negotiated 100MBPS.
>
> An ISA NE2k clone works fine in said computer. v0.90
> also works fine with these Macronix cards in P5 mainboard
> with SIS chipset and a PII mainboard with i430BX chipset.
I suspect you are running into the same problem I ran into recently. The
newer 10/100 pci cards use bus mastering but the pci 486 does not support
bus mastering. On my machine the card would work under light traffic (ie
internet browsing) but under heavier use, say if someone tried to access
data on the hard disk, the card would die (not to mention generating
General Protection Faults). If this adequately describes what you are
experiancing, then you will either have to keep the NE2k card or upgrade
to a pentium board that supports bus mastering...
Dale W Hodge dwh@sktc.net, dwh@dnd.ddns.org
Web Page: www.sktc.net/~dwh, www.dnd.ddns.org
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