Re: 3c59x driver: card not responding after a while

Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-06-01T07:37:49Z

hmm i can't say i'm experiencing any problems, perhaps this might help;

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Scott McDermott wrote:

> Ronny T. Lampert (EED) on Fri 31/05 17:34 +0200:
> > I'm having (reproducable) problems with the 3c59x driver; after a
> > while (depends on card/traffic), the card doesn't send nor receive
> > anymore.
>
> - are you using netfilter?

Yep

> - it degrades over time and only after quite a bit of data pumped
> through it does it hang right? and slowly decreasing throughput right?

Stays consistent, 60+ day uptime.

> - I feel much better to know someone else has this bug! I thought sure I
> was crazy since I did not hear of this problem from anyone else and
> 905B is very common card.

You might have to plead insanity ;)

> > o RH 7.2 stock (2.4.7)
>
> wait this worked or didn't? for me 2.4.7 works fine, 2.4.17 does not.

iirc stock RH7.2 and RH7.3 worked fine.

> yep, same thing here...I was to try 2.4.7 3c59x.c with otherwise recent
> kernel but have not got around to this yet...

I'm running 2.4.18-pre7-ac1, 2.4.19-pre8-ac(can't recall), all the boxes
transfer 2G+ of data a day (home network). IIRC i've been using those
cards since 2.4.2ish almost without skipping any version updates.

Cards are 3c905B on i440BX, SIS5595 and ServerWorks CNB20LE

I hope this information is of some use to you.

Regards,
Zwane

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