Matti Aarnio wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:48:16AM +0000, David Ford wrote:
> > The three cardbus cards are slightly different in numerous ways. For
> > them they normally fault with an APM event, an eject/insert cycle via
> > software will reset hem and a link down/up won't fix it. For the PCI
> > cards most times a link down/up cycle will fix them. It's a 2.4 v.s. 2.2
> > issue, the 2.2 kernels aren't exhibiting this error.
>
> I see that with my AT2800TX cardbus card as well.
> (Using Tulip driver, no less.)
>
> > The PCI cards are hard to get into this state, sometimes they'll run
> > millions of packets for months on end before they'll burp. Sometimes
> > it'll happen three times a night. The amount of traffic doesn't seem
> > to matter, nor does the type of traffic.
>
> Sounds like timing issue.
Hmm, should we class these as two similar but different bugs? I suspect they
are both timing but there is another stimulus operating differently.
-d
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