[tulip] Problems with tulip and NVdriver modules

[Norman Jordan]

I have a Riva TNT (AGP) and I use NVidia's drivers for XFree86 4.0.1,
including a kernel module.  I also have a Linksys LNE100TX v2.0 ethernet
card, for which I use the tulip module.

If I don't use NVidia's driver, then everything works perfectly fine.
If I do use NVidia's driver, however, then after a while, maybe 2 or 3
days, my computer would freeze.  It would always freeze on large file
transfers.  It doesn't seem to matter whether they use the same IRQ or
not.

I have tried kernel's 2.2.16 and 2.2.17, with the included tulip
modules, and with the newest version of the tulip driver, and I always
have the same problem.

cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Acer Labs Unknown device (rev 4).
      Vendor id=10b9. Device id=1541.
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000000].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: Acer Labs Unknown device (rev 4).
      Vendor id=10b9. Device id=5243.
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.
  Bus  0, device   3, function  0:
    Bridge: Acer Labs Unknown device (rev 0).
      Vendor id=10b9. Device id=7101.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Acer Labs M1533 Aladdin IV (rev 195).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
  Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
    Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 6).
      Vendor id=1102. Device id=2.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 5.  Master
Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
      I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
  Bus  0, device  10, function  1:
    Input device controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 6).
      Vendor id=1102. Device id=7002.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=32.
      I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
  Bus  0, device  11, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Realtek 8029 (rev 0).
      Medium devsel.  IRQ 10.
      I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
  Bus  0, device  12, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: LiteOn Unknown device (rev 37).
      Vendor id=11ad. Device id=c115.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master
Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=56.
      I/O at 0xb800 [0xb801].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde000000 [0xde000000].
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
    IDE interface: Acer Labs M5229 TXpro (rev 193).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.
Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0xb400 [0xb401].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: NVidia Unknown device (rev 4).
      Vendor id=10de. Device id=20.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.  Master
Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf000000 [0xdf000000].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe7000008].

dmesg | grep "eth0"
eth0: Lite-On PNIC-II rev 37 at 0xb800, 00:A0:CC:69:48:8D, IRQ 11.


Norman Jordan