Intel EtherExpress Pro Transmitter crash with 2.2.9 (Ipv6 related?)

[Alan Cox]

> So IPv6 somehow does something with multicast? We are certainly not doing
> anything directly with it..

IPv6 directly uses multicasts for neighbour discovery services (equivalent
of ARP)

> Well hopefully VA will hear about this and stop shipping these cards with
> their machines since they clearly do not work 100%. We will swap it out, I
> have no desire to work with defective hardware/drivers at a distance.

Try the current eepro100 driver not the one in the kernel. See if that
helps