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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Frank de Lange <frank@unternet.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware  related?
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 23:21:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A5CE07D.BD36D71C@colorfullife.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010110223015.B18085@unternet.org>

Frank de Lange wrote:
> 
> Hi'all,
> 
> Ever since I put two ethernet-cards (cheap Winbond W89C940 based PCI NE2K
> clones) in my BP-6 system, I've been experiencing intermittent network hangs.
>

Which driver do you use? The driver in 2.4.0 contains several bugfixes.
If that driver still hangs then I'll double check the documentation.

> A
> hang manifests itself as a total failure to communicate through either network
> card, and can only be solved by rebooting. Removing and reloading the modules
> does not fix the problem, only a reboot works.
> 

That's different from my problems:
unload+reload always fixed my problems with the unpatch winbond-840
driver.

> which should work, they are
> NON-busmastering cards after all...),
third line in w840_probe1():

	pci_set_master().

And the documentation begins with
W89C840F
	PCI Bus Master Fast Ethernet LAN Controller.


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	Manfred
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-10 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-10 21:30 QUESTION: Network hangs with BP6 and 2.4.x kernels, hardware related? Frank de Lange
2001-01-10 22:21 ` Manfred Spraul [this message]
2001-01-10 22:29   ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-10 22:40   ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 11:48 ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-11 15:22   ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 16:55   ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:18   ` Frank de Lange
     [not found]     ` <3A5E0849.EB428D70@mandrakesoft.com>
2001-01-12  0:28       ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 11:40         ` Andrew Morton
2001-01-12 15:06           ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 15:36           ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:38   ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 19:49   ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 21:09   ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-11 21:47     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-01-11 21:53       ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 14:35       ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-12 16:53 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 17:02 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-12 17:16 Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 17:33 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 17:51   ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 18:25     ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:04       ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:07         ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:21         ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:33           ` Manfred Spraul
2001-01-12 19:52             ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 19:59               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-12 20:03                 ` Ingo Molnar
2001-01-14  0:13                   ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-01-14  0:23                     ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 20:05                 ` Frank de Lange
2001-01-12 21:21                 ` Frank de Lange
     [not found] <20010112165104.A22465@unternet.org>
2001-01-16 19:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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