system lockup with RTL8139

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Puneet Goel wrote:

> I am using the RTL8139 on a single board computer using RT-Linux. The
> system works fine mostly but once in a while it just locks up. Nothing
> can get the system going except powering down and up. I have not been
> able to get a pattern going. The data transfer is pretty large but not
> huge.

Please try the new driver in
   http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html
   ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/

Note that this updated driver requires inserting the new PCI and ACPI
support module 'pci-netif.o' before inserting the module 'rtl8139.o'.
You'll need the following files:
   rtl8139.c
   Makefile
   pci-netif.c
   pci-netif.h
   k_compat.h

Donald Becker					  becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
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