[linux-help] FW: looking for cheap 100baset cards

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In our recent discussions on 3com Cards, I ran across this message:
--dwh

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Morton
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 12:55 AM
To: Brian
Cc: linux-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: looking for cheap 100baset cards


Brian wrote:
> 
> It's a good card and hasn't given me any flack since the Apr15 drivers.
> Of course, I've only tested it on the one server, so that may change when
> we use them in a quartet of well abused squid servers starting next week.

Good to hear...

The current drivers can cause an oops if the card's interrupt line is
shared with another device.   It's really obscure and I can't reproduce
it here even after pumping half a gigapacket through it, but we have a
fine oops report which shows it :(

I'll have a 2.2 fix out in the next few days, but that won't help people
who use older drivers.

The moral: don't share 3c905/3c905B/3c905C IRQ lines with other PCI
devices in kernel 2.2.
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