Crashes with 3c59x.c:v0.99L especially on DELL WS

[Shon Martin]

Richard:
	Just from my experience, when I have problems the last place I
look to is a buggy driver, esp one thats been out for a while. 

	Its been some time since I used 2.0.36, but I personally would
look at a IRQ problem. My Dell is a little touchy about assigning IRQ's.
Since I believe all the IO-APIC stuff is not in 2.0.36 perhaps this could
be a clue. Have you tried removing all the cards (if thats possible.) and
seeing if the problem goes away? Does /proc/interrupts show anything odd?
In the past I can recall the network card and sound card conflicting.

	At any rate, I'm just trying to give you some ideas. The driver
works for me unpatched. Perhaps you're just banging on it harder, but I
really would be sure everything else looks okay before hacking the driver.

-Shon

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Richard Black wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:02:18 +0100
> From: Richard Black <rjb@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
> To: Shon Martin <shon.martin@oberlin.edu>
> Cc: Richard Black <rjb@dcs.gla.ac.uk>,
>     linux-vortex-bug@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov, rjb@dcs.gla.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: Crashes with 3c59x.c:v0.99L especially on DELL WS
> 
> 
> > Richard:
> > 	Thats odd. I've got a Dell WS 400, and haven't seen any problems like
> > you've described. Have you tried running Dell's diagnostic? Something
> > wrong with the network?
> >
> > -Shon 
> 
> The 2.0.36 kernel works fine.  Also, even if there was something wrong with 
> the ethernet the driver shouldn't crash the kernel.
> 
> Richard.
> 
> 
>