Re: Tulip oddity under 2.2.19 - possible bug?

Chris Friesen (cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com)
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 10:49:57 -0500

Jonathan Woithe wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> [ Please CC me any replies since I read the list through a web archive which
> sometimes misses messages ]
>
> In recent times I have encounted an oddity while using a tulip-based NIC
> under 2.2.19. I am wondering whether it's associated with a known issue or
> whether it's indicating a hardware fault of some description.

Have you tried the latest tulip drivers from www.scyld.com/network? I've found
them to be best for the 2.2 series.

That said, there is still a race condition in the current driver that can cause
the tx queue to hang, but it's highly unlikely that you'll hit it at home (have
to be doing significant traffic in both directions to make it likely that you'll
hit it).

Chris

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