On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> At 03:42 PM 11/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >I just recently purchased a Netgear 10/100 NIC that uses the tulip driver.
> >But now I'm experiancing intermittant lockups. The recieve module seems
> >to lock up and I start getting buffer overflows. I've also experianced
> >general protection faults since installing this card. The car works okay
> >as long as there is a low volume of traffic - like web surfing. But try to
> >start a shared application and the card lock up. If I take the interface
> >down and then restart it, it's back in business until someone trys to move
> >a lot of data across the link. I've run tulip-diag when the card locks up
> >and it reports the RX process state is stalled. Any ideas? For the time
> >being, I think I'll revert to the 10BaseT card that was previously in the
> >machine.
> >
> >TIA for any suggestions.
> >
> >
> Are you using the latest version of the driver? If you have the Netgear
> FA310TX REV-D1 you need the driver included with 2.0.36. The version
> that came with 2.0.35 seams to have problem with the clone chip that the
> newer Netgear and Linksys cards use. The newer version is also included
> with the 4.01 driver disk from Netgear, along with the instructions for
> using it with an older kernel.
>
> Mikkel
>
I think I found the reason for all my problems. I went back to the
vendors site and re-read all the available documentation and FAQ's. While
aimed primarily at Windows users, the FAQ did provide one important piece
of info - this card uses busmastering and thus must go in a busmaster
aware slot. I check the documentation on my motherboard and it doesn't
mention busmastering at all. I now suspect that what was happening was
that the net card was grabbing the bus and was walking over the i/o
processes of the other cards. I became convinced of this when the hard
drive generated an i/o error and locked the system up tight. This also
explains the strange General Protection faults I was randomly getting.
I guess this mean I'm going to upgrade the motherboard sooner rather than
later... :)
Thanks for everyone's help!
Dale W Hodge [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Page: www.dwh.dyn.ml.org , www.dnd.ddns.org
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