[vortex] 3C905B Suddenly timeout after 3-4 hours usage (Linux kernel 2.4.18)

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Edward Tsang wrote:

> I am running following hardware configuration on linux kernel 2.4.18
> Intel Pentium II 350Mhz
> 3ware 6410 Hardware RAID Controller
> 1 x 3Com 3C905B Network Adapter
> 1 x 8139 Realteak network adapter.

What driver versions?

> Recently, we can't access the system suddenly. When we go to the console,
> the system is up. However, both network cards did not respond anymore.
...
> I will try to run the vortdex-diag and realteak-diag tonight and post the
> result later.

They will provide important information.  Run them after the network
interface stops.

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