If you need rock solid network then Intel is way to go!I bought pair of Intel
Gbit cards (MT copper 70$) and they nicely saturate 10/100Mbit link:)I *NEVER*
had any problems with 'fxp' driver!

Greetings 

Quoting James Burton <james@jmsh.net>:

> 
> 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
> 
> ---
> James Burton (james@jmsh.net)   
> 




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