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Re: Potato networking problem



George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:

> 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.

Have a look at 

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html

This page belongs to the guy that develops the tulip driver (at least
the last time I checked he was still the developer) and has the latest
tulip.c

Gary


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