Re: 2.0 kernels, tulip driver, crashes and reboots (long)

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:55:55 +0000 (GMT)


On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Al Youngwerth wrote:

> 2) A 2.0.36 kernel with the .90f version of the tulip driver both locks and
> reboots. Tulip .89K and .87 only reboot, no lockups (.87 is stock for .35
> and .36).

An alternative driver that works with most Tulip cards (but maybe not some
of the newer clones) is the de4x5.c driver. I'd check it out - we had
stability problems with tulip.c and swapping it for de4x5.c sorted them
out.

> 3) 10 systems with ne2000 cards and the 2.0.36 kernel in them reboot but
> don't lockup.

Heh. Seen that. Glad to know it wasn't just us.

Chris

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