On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Civileme wrote:
> Gigabyte GA-5AX (ALi Aladdin V AGPset)
> ATI Rage IIC 8Mb AGP
> IBM/Intel EtherPro/100
My guess is our best friend (not) irq shareing for some funny reason on
these two.
> SB 64 AWE (ISA)
> 64 or 128 MB RAM
>
> Received 4 systems in August. All were brutalized by UPS and 2 had to
> be returned.
>
> One was installed with L-M 6.0 It was properly updated and works
> One was installed with L-M 6.1 It goes into paralytic shock when the
> network card is accessed, shutting down the video into powersaver mode.
>
> The crash is real. Can't get the video to respond, can't telnet in....
> Nothing
>
> In 6.0 this same machine dies when the network is accessed, but does not
> go into screensaver mode--If ping is run from it, it is FOUR tries and
> freeze.
>
> Nothing useful in any logs
>
> Changed memory--no effect
> Changed Motherboards to an Intel LX chipset--no effect
>
> Swapped in a different network card Labeled IBM 10/100 EtherJet PCI
> Adaptor with Wake On LAN Assm P/N 30L5760
> THIS IS THE SAME Card I started with, just from a different
> machine--SAME pattern of crashes with nothing in the logs.
>
> Switched to Caldera 2.3 Failed Install twice. Finally installed then
> crashed on AMD, again, nothing useful in the logs, but it did fail video
> twice before freezing.
>
> Tried RedHat, which is what these came installed with--worked great
> until I added the network module, then down we go.
>
> Swapped in a cheap ($5) NE2000 PCI clone. Ping times to the server
> dropped from 22 ms to 0.1 ms and no crash.
>
> This IBM 10/100 Ethernet card has an Intel chipset on it with what looks
> like a house number. In Win98 it shows up as an Intel EtherPro and an
> IBM 10/100 BOTH. It sort-of works there, until you try networking.
>
> I have one of six that works properly under linux. Perhaps a different
> lot?
>
> Guess the point here is AVOID THIS CARD!!!!
>
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> Civileme
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