Re: Network card seizes! suggestions?
Just to be sure, check that you don't have an IRQ conflict, or a conflict
on memory address space, or some such thing. If it was conflicting with
something not often used, you might only see the problem when both
devices tried to operate at the same time--and a large file transfer
would increase the probability of that.
It could also be a faulty network card; they do exist. You might try
your ne2000 in one of the other Debian boxes--if it doesn't work
there, you know the card has problems. If it does work there, it may
be one of those weird hardware things--so leave it in the box where
it works, and put that boxes network card in your 486 :-)
Unfortunately my 486's power supply gave up the ghost awhile back, and
I figure it isn't worth replacing, since the power supply costs more
than the machine itself.
Justin
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 12:04:09AM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
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