The machine is stable except for power failures.
> We are talking about the same tulips and VIA chipsets, I hope?
> The Netgear cards I've got have one nearly tulip sized chip
> on them titled:
>
> NETGEAR
> NGMC1698
> 9843
> AN6258.1
That's exactly the same as mine, down to the date code (except the 8 on
the last line is actually a B).
> which is described in hinv (on the server, which I'll describe
> exclusively, because it's been running longest and has the most
> to lose if the card turns out to be icky) as
>
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC
> eth0: MII transceiver found
My logs are long since rotated, but that looks familiar.
> And the VIA chipset I've got on the motherboards (FIC PA2013)
> is Vendor id 1106, Device id 586, which dmesg reports as
>
> ide: VT82C586 VXPRO+ (Apollo) on PCI bus 0 function 57
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x6400-0x6407
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x6408-0x640f
> hda: IBM-DTTA-351350, 8063MB w/464kB Cache, CHS=1644/255/63, DMA
> hdc: IBM-DTTA-351350, 8063MB w/464kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, DMA
>
>
> Of course, I'm not running 2.2.x on this machine; I'm running a much
> hacked 2.0.28, with the startup logo patch, the Webshield "this is Unix,
> so yes it's okay to have network modules autoprobe" patch, one of the
> VIA chipset DMA patches, my new.new.memory patch, a patch so that the
> IDE driver doesn't screw up disk geometry by trying to outguess the
> IBM drives, and a large crop of additional and backported 2.0.3x and
> 2.2.x drivers (including the netgear-tweaked tulip.c)
>
I tried a wide array of drivers - kernel, vendor supplied, and newer one
from Donald Becker.
The box has a Amptron 8600B motherboard, Cyrix 6x86MX, bogomips are 166 so
I think it was a 166 mhz machine.
> So, as you can see, I'm rather surprised to hear that this particular
> combination of hardware is BAD, given that it's not yet bitten me in
> the ass.
Hmmm, it most definitely didn't function, as evidenced by the mark in the
wall the airborne card caused. :-)
dave
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