Subject: Re: lock up in 1.6.1, 1.6.2RC4
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
From: James Burton <james@jmsh.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/29/2004 17:09:41
On 27-Feb-04 Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Which driver are you using for your nic?  ne?

Yes, an ISA NE2000 clone.

> 
> I had random lockups with 1.6.2RC's too, and I narrowed them down to the
> network adapter.  I replaced it by a new one and it's working flawless now,
> so
> I thought it just broke down.
> 
> But now you make me doubt... maybe a driver problem?

Yes, now that I've heard that I bought a NetGear FA311 and recompiled my kernel
with sip0 and the problem has gone away. That was enough to get me to send in a
PR.

The problem now is that the sip driver suffers form SILO underruns :-(

Thanks,
James

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James Burton (james@jmsh.net)