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

[Michael Kirk <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Goto bestbuiy and get the dlink


ummm 3\508 I believe isb the model that what I used in linux

since I could not get my 3com to work


At 02:18 PM 6/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
> 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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