Epic 100 1st connections

[Anthony Schlemmer]

Valentijn Sessink wrote:
> 
> Hello list, hello Donald,

Have you tried the Linux driver that's available at SMC's European
site?:

http://www.smc-europe.com/support/software/drivers/linux2.2-324.zip

> 
> I'm using "Epic 100" SMC9432 cards for a whole lot of computers. Never
> had any problems with them - apart from the PCI bus error I reported
> back in '98 (that was resolved). But now, kernel 2.2.14 and 2.2.14 show
> some strange behaviour on startup. They repeatedly do not show any
> connectivity on first try - we need to reboot, then second time it
> works. Once in a while, this behaviour is accompanied by a "kmalloc -
> size too large" on first network traffic try - but not always.
> 
> As far as I can remember, the second try always works, but my collegue
> Wouter mentions that he "uses the Big Red one" because a soft reboot
> (ctrl alt del) "did not work one time, IIRC".
> 
> This is on a variety of computers, a dual processor Abit board, an
> Athlon 550. The slower computers (K6-400 et al.) seem to not show this
> behaviour.
> 
> Kernel 2.2.14 and 2.2.15pre15, Debian and Slackware, 100Mbit, no shared
> PCI int's, and for the rest pretty standard hardware. We're not sure
> what to do next, so could anyone tell us what we could do to help
> debugging the problem?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Valentijn Sessink
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