[vortex] can't unload module

[David Fries]

I don't know if it is a motherboard/network card combination, but I
see networking going down the tube with nfs traffic the first to show
things slowing down.  Sometimes networking completely stops and
without any error message.

In previous kernels I just did ifconfig eth0 down, rmmod 3c59x, insmod
3c59x, ifconfig ... and it was back to normal.

Now I booted the 2.4.0-test9 pre4 kernel ( the test8 did it also, but
I think I could unload under test7).  This is with a 3c509B network
card.

With 2.4.0-test9 it gives me,

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free.  Usage count =
2

and that keeps scrolling on the screen.

If I run ifconfig it hangs, doing strace ifconfig shows it hangs on
the ioctl ( SIOCGIFCONF) call.
/proc/net/dev does not list an eth0 device
/proc/modules lists 3c59x 21992  0 (deleted)

I need the latest kernel or usb crashes, but if networking goes down
I'm SOL, time to reboot which is just as annoying.

I'm open to suggestions.

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		|      David Fries                |
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