On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, christ wrote:
>
> >Is it possible for a bad network card to cause the kernel to freak out and
> >crash?
>
> when the hardware is bad, all bets are off. in other words, definitely.
> even misconfigured good hardware can be guilty. (stuff trying to share
> irqs with bossy scsi cards being a good example that our friend justin
> ran into just today)
> a bad mouse probably wouldn't do it (don't quote me tho---i'm sure someone
> has a pathological case handy), but a bad ISA/PCI card? easily.
> esp if youre trying to use it or something on its IRQ
>
>
A bad mouse will definately crash X; on Dell machines it can disable the
keyboard, too (I just went through this).
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