[tulip] 4 port ethernet card is freezing, after ifconfig it's OK

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Tomas Holenda wrote:

> I have problem with 4-port ethernet card called ALLNET ALL0144. Approx. 
> once a day the card freezes.

What driver version?  What was the detection message?

> When i type ifconfig on console i get as failure error fetching 
> interface: device not found. Then i type ifconfig again and nic are up.

Does this problem occur with kernels before 2.4.18?
Is the module re-loaded when you do 'ifconfig' (check the message log to
find out).


Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210		Second Generation Beowulf Clusters
Annapolis MD 21403			410-990-9993