Re: 3c59x driver: card not responding after a while

[Scott McDermott <vaxerdec@frontiernet.net>]

Ronny T. Lampert (EED) on Fri 31/05 17:34 +0200:
> I'm having (reproducable) problems with the 3c59x driver; after a
> while (depends on card/traffic), the card doesn't send nor receive
> anymore.

- are you using netfilter?

- cat /proc/net/dev, what does the fifo counter say when iface hung?

- it degrades over time and only after quite a bit of data pumped
  through it does it hang right? and slowly decreasing throughput right?

- I feel much better to know someone else has this bug! I thought sure I
  was crazy since I did not hear of this problem from anyone else and
  905B is very common card.

> o RH 7.2 stock (2.4.7)

wait this worked or didn't? for me 2.4.7 works fine, 2.4.17 does not.

> If you do a /etc/init.d/network restart (or ifconfig eth0 down ;
> ifconfig eth0 ... up), the card works again.

yep, same thing here...I was to try 2.4.7 3c59x.c with otherwise recent
kernel but have not got around to this yet...