Re: Potato networking problem

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Greg Quinn wrote:

> I have potato 2.2.13 running on an AMD Athlon box. Looks good, but the
> network interface dies under pressure. Typically, an ftp of a large file
> from a remote machine to this new box will kill the network: an ifdown/ifup
> will kickstart it again.
> 
> The card is a Netgear 310tx, tulip driver.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Where did you get the driver?

Try the latest tulip driver from Alan Cox's 2.2.15pre17 tree. There have
been several changes to it.

Or wait a couple of days ... 2.2.15 should be released RSN.

I can send you the driver source for the new one if you are interested.