RTL8139 TX timeouts

[Jeff Garzik]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Michael Renzmann wrote:

> Hi Jeff.
> 
> > > I encountered a similar problem a few minutes ago. Kernel is 2.2.14,
> > > I use two RTL8139-Cards. Trying to ping IPs within our network
> > > failed, then the following message came up: [...]
> > The 8139too driver in Linux kernel 2.3.45 and later fix this problem.
> 
> Is it possible to simply replace the version from kernel 2.2.14 with
> the source from 2.3.45?

I will answer a different question, to avoid confusion... :)

You can boot a 2.2.x kernel and a 2.3.x kernel without having to change
anything but LILO.

If you are using the kernel in a production environment, you should not
upgrade to 2.3.x unless 2.2.x simply fails to work.

Regards,

	Jeff





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