[vortex] Problems with 3c59x driver network adapter stops working

[Scott McDermott]

Juergen Vigna on Mon  4/11 16:40 +0100:
> Ok I just now had again the situation where our "mail" servers eth0
> did not work, or better it did work but *VERY* slowly (pings of 500ms
> on our 100Mbit network).

When this happens, what does /proc/net/dev look like?

What happens when you "ifup eth0; ifdown eth0" when it is stuck ?

Do you have a Via chipset?

Is your card that has troubles sharing a PCI interrupt with anything?