I run an SMC Etherpower II under linux and win95 (linux most of the time)
I get a number of weird problems that I _think_ are hardware based. I run
the card at 10Mps to a dumb hub using the default drivers from 2.1.125.
The problems I get are:
Lots of socket destroy deleyed message (not sure if the is driver/hardware
issue or kernel issue)
And if playing quake2 the card resets it's self every 30 seconds or so,
this happens under win95 and linux so I think that it is a hardware bug or
a driver workaround for a hardware bug.
I think that the driver gets a number of timed out / mangeled packets and
conducts a hardware reset (link on hub goes off and on again) to try and
fix things. The same effect can be seen under windows. I also have an
wd8013 in the machine which I use to play quake2 via so I know that it is
not a network / hub problem but an SMC Etherpower II problem.
Tim Fletcher .~.
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