Re: 3C905b partial lockup in 2.4.5-pre5 and up to 2.4.6-pre1

Ben LaHaise
2001-06-10T05:54:35Z

On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Andrew Morton wrote:

> There's a problem in some versions of `pump' where it gets
> confused and ends up spinning indefinitely. If you're using
> pump could you please try the latest RPM?

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.

-ben