> I recently bought a new NetGear PCI Ethernet card. It has the
> crappy Lite-On tulip clone chip instead of the original DEC Tulip they
> used to put on the board.
>
> When I used the tulip.c 0.90 driver from Donald's web site, the
> card seems to work except that my computer spontanenously reboots within
> 12 hours of use. There doesn't seem to be any warning or logs, just
> suddenly the screen goes blank and I'm staring at the BIOS memory test.
> This also happens on 2.1.131-ac10 and I even tried the v0.90f testing
> version of the tulip driver.
>
> Does anyone else see this odd behavior on their systems?
>
I've got a similar card (same chip, different brand) that I've been using
with v0.89H of the tulip drivers from Donald Becker's site. I've never had
problems with that driver (current uptime: 11 days on
2.1.131-ac-mumble-something-or-other), so you might try dropping back to
that version.
later,
chris
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chris.ricker@m.cc.utah.edu
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