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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 04:00:04 +0000 (GMT)

> 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.

The older tulip driver blows up under certain memory conditions (fixed
by 0.89H) when certain variants get overlarge packets (fixed in 0.89K
I believe) and when some clones hand back crazy size reports (ditto).

0.90 seems to work very well unless you have a VIA chipset.

> > 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.

I've never seen a real NE2000 reboot a machine, and I have a lot. I've seen
several clones that crash, lock the ISA bus and then hang the machine
totally solidly or on some brighter boards cause the chipset to reboot
the system.

These would be 10 winbonds by any chance ?

Alan

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