Re: Tulip driver bug in 2.4.17 (fwd)

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

David Lang wrote:


> for me the same machine is rock solid with 2.4.5/8 (driver 0.9.14) but
> fails with 2.4.14/17 (driver 0.9.15-pre9)


Can you check if your 2.4.5/8 driver actually does 100bt-FD autonegotiation
correctly?  I believe it was broken during that time, and fixed in 2.4.9.
It's possible that that may have something to do with the problem, but
it's a stretch...

It might also be interesting to see if the working driver still works
if you forward port it into 2.4.17....

Ben


> 
> the failure is not at all traffic related, I have these boxes in
> production (only useing 3 of the 4 ports) with no problems at all, but on
> a box not connected to any network I can lock it up by just issuing an
> ifconfig.
> 
> it's possible that it's a PCI problem (if so can we back off the timing to
> what worked?), but I would expect the problem to be more variable if that
> was the case.
> 
> David Lang
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