Andreas Wrede writes:
> from floppy to the hard disk. After ifconfig'ng the 3com 509 card
> the kernel will panic within a couple of commands, sometimes on the
> first ping, sometimes I can ftp to another host before the
> panic.
[...]
> Any suggestions how I should attack this problem?

You are suffering from a bug in the compilation of elink3.c --
recompile the file without optimization, link it into a fresh kernel,
and try again.

Perry