Re: BUG

[thomas lakofski <thomas@88.net>]

hi,

your problems sound like you may actually have some broken hardware, more
than a problem with debian.  in my personal experience of using debian
since august 1996 the only time it has ever gone wrong on a stable release
is when the hardware of the computer i was using was broken somehow (bad
ram, scsi controller, motherboard or whatever).

i'd suggest finding some hardware diagnostic software to see what's up
(eg. Microscope or something like it).

it's also possible that you have a misconfiguration which is causing
different components of your box to try and use the same resources, which
can result in unpredictable behaviour.

as far as the 3com card, what model is it (ie 3c590, 3c509, or whatever)?
the kernel supports most modern as well as more ancient cards very well --
this message reached you via a 3c590.

regards,

-thomas

On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, raymond ferrari wrote:

> From: raymond ferrari <rferrari@rainmanintl.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 17:21:36 -0700
> Subject: BUG
> 
> I am utterly disappointed. After two weeks of dealing with installing
> debian and trying to learn, my Linux machine has crashed or should I say
> frozen. YES.
> While trying to read the Debian online help for ethernet 3com cards , my
> machine suddenly froze without any ability to get out. This is the
> second time today after losing 0.6% non contiguous. This also seemed to
> affect my win95 which has been working great under Linux control. Hasn't
> crashed once, or further, would actually shut down properly. How about
> that. There is obviously a bug in this part of debian. Someone should
> look at it. Or is there a patch for this. The Debian/GNU Linux distro..
> I got at the Linux World Expo in San Jose in August, '99. Hopefully,
> some day soon I can actually on the net, get my mail, have sound and
> video, but for now, I'm stuck with my ass up to books, papers, and this
> windows machine that let's me communicate with you gods of Linux who can
> help the pitiful. Please help? I still net to get the information for
> the 3com ethernet card. Where do you guys suggest. Thanks.
> Ray Ferrari
> 
> 
> 
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