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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>,
	hofmang@ibm.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3C905b partial  lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 09:38:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010610093838.A13074@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B22CEF9.6DEB1A66@uow.edu.au> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106100151090.9384-100000@toomuch.toronto.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106100151090.9384-100000@toomuch.toronto.redhat.com>; from bcrl@redhat.com on Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:54:13AM -0400

On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:54:13AM -0400, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> I doubt it's related to pump: a few times I've seen the 3c59x driver drop
> the first few transmit packets.  Try loading the driver as a module and
> putting the whole modprobe ; ifconfig ; ping <somehost> set of commands
> into a script and watch what happens.  This goes for all ethernet driver
> writers.

Is this a change of requirements for ethernet drivers?  Many other drivers
do exactly the same (drop the first few packets while they're negotiating
with a hub), unless they're using 10base2, even back to the days of 2.0
kernels.

--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-10  8:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-09 17:45 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1 Glenn C. Hofmann
2001-06-10  1:35 ` Andrew Morton
2001-06-10  4:56   ` Glenn C. Hofmann
2001-06-10  5:08   ` Glenn C. Hofmann
2001-06-10  5:54   ` Ben LaHaise
2001-06-10  8:38     ` Russell King [this message]
2001-06-10  9:39       ` arjan
2001-06-10 16:06       ` Ben LaHaise
2001-06-10 16:34         ` Russell King
2001-06-10 16:47           ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-10 22:23             ` Ben LaHaise
2001-06-11  0:53             ` David S. Miller
2001-06-11 13:03               ` Andrew Morton
2001-06-11 13:27                 ` David S. Miller
2001-06-11 13:49                   ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-11 14:21                     ` Andrew Morton
2001-06-11 16:05                       ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-11  3:17             ` Glenn C. Hofmann
2001-06-11  3:25               ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-12  3:17                 ` Glenn C. Hofmann

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