I had the same problem in a 486 machine with an NE2000 clone and never could figure it out. A different NIC and it's been running like a champ ever since.
Donald Becker's webpages (the great guy who writes an awful lot of NIC modules...) have some great info on which NIC's he liked writing modules for and which ones have bugs and/or other issues that aren't Good Things(tm). I vaguely remember seeing something about NE2000 lockups in there a LONG time ago (my forgetter works better than my rememberer sometimes!) but I could be wrong. Excellent reading anyway, and it's fun to find out a little more about the folks behind stuff as useful as his ethernet drivers have been for all of us over the years... (: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html -- this is where you can find more info about the drivers. http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html -- this is where you can find out more about Donald. (: On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > Hi > I have a problem I have never encountered before with 10 Debian boxes. > The problem is every now and again, particularly during large transfers > of files by either ftp or samba, the network card on the computer just stops! > > The network card is an ne2000 compatible one (or at least that is the network > driver that works with it!) and when this occurs, I cannot do anything to > "restart" the network card going again. I have tried removing the ne.o module > but I can't as it says the device is in use. Instead I have to do a tedious > reboot on this old 486 Dx2 Gateway machine which I have running Debian 2.1. > > Has anyone encountered this before ? Any suggestions welcome. > > Yours > (trying to make an old 486 useful) > Cormac > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | "May the Source be with you." | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
