Eugene Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday, November 27, 1998 11:04 AM, David Maslen
> [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > Can anyone shed any light on this?
> > I heard Alan Cox and someone else did some kind appletalk of patch to
> > the ne2000 card in the for ac3 last kernel. Did that make it into 130?
> > Would that have helped?
> There was a problem with multicast tables getting hosed sometimes
> under SMP on 8390 chips. Alan made a proper fix that put all sorts of
> chastity belts in the way of such behavior. It is possible, although
> not necessarily likely. that a similar mechanism (attempting a transmit
> on one CPU while handling an interrupt on another) could get the
> the interrupts tangled up. So I'd say try it. When you say "lock up",
> do you mean the card becomes useless or the kernel hangs?
The ne2000 clone card hangs. ifconfig up & down will restart it.
When you say try it, you mean try AC's patch?
I figured it would probably have made it into 130.
I've tried ne & ne2k-pci with 130, and it's still a problem.
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