Re: Tulip driver bug in 2.4.17 (fwd)

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

You're not using a PCI extender/riser card, are you?

What motherboard?

By lockup, how hard is it?  Will the reset button work quickly?
After 5 or so seconds?

You should probably send an lspci -vv and the interesting parts from
dmesg (or /var/log/messages)...


David Lang wrote:

> as I have not received any response directly I am sending this to the full
> list for help.
> 
> David Lang
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:10:42 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Lang <dlang@diginsite.com>
> To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
> Subject: Tulip driver bug in 2.4.17
> 
> I am running a dlink DFE-570TX quad card that works fine with the 0.9.14
> driver in 2.4.8, but with the 2.4.15-pre9 driver in 2.4.14-2.4.17 I run
> into a bug when trying to use all the interfaces.
> 
> if I use eth3 alone it works
> if I use eth0, eth1, eth2 it works
> if I use eth0, eth1, eth3 it locks up immediatly following the ifconfig,
> locking up to the point that the magic sysreq stuff doesn't work!
> 
> if I work the other direction and ifconfig eth3, eth2, eth1, eth0 I get a
> shell prompt back after the last ifconfig before it locks up.
> 
> I posted this friday on sourceforge, but looking today at the activity
> there it doesn't look like it's in use much now so I'm sending this
> directly to you. If there is any other place I should send it or any
> additional tests I should perform, please let me know (I have 50 of these
> cards either in production or headed there soon :-)
> 
> David Lang
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