Re: Realtek 10/100Mhz ehternets cards

Roger Gammans (rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk)
Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:03:04 +0000


In article <4.1.19990302150323.027fe770@pop.arrakis.es>, Raiden
<raiden@arrakis.es> writes
>
>I have detect a problem with that cards in several PII.
>When i get that cards work really hard i get a message as:
>"irq timeout ... etc" which get system go out without any network conecction.
>
>The machine will work perfectly after that, but as i said the eth dont work
>more.
>It's fixed rebooting ...
>I have after that just installing some DEC card getting same message.
>It's all with 2.0.36....
>
>2.2.1 have not driver for 100Mhz realtek eth cards, any reason?
>
>do any know any about this "irq timeout" problems?
>
>I got really lost after see i got same problem with Digital eth cards.
>-
>Anyway, could be some at bios?
Have you tried the latest driver on Donald Becker's website, fixed the
problem for me. It v1.04 IIRC cf, 0.99b in 2.0.36

TTFN

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Roger Gammans

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