Hi all I have what appears to be a driver/IO conflict that I would greatly appreciate some assistance with fixing!
I have recently acquired an older laptop - a Toshiba Satellite Pro 460CDT - that I am using to learn the Debian ropes. It came with a 3COM Dell-branded PCMCIA network adapter, model 3CCFE575CT. I have installed Debian 3.0r2, and everything has gone perfectly. I've got my setup nicely customised, and am enjoying myself immensely playing with everything. There is, however, a slight problem. The laptop will sometimes freeze or lockup when using the network. This is intermittent, but occurs more often with a high network load. It occurs as regularly when using X or simply on the console. I can cause the laptop to freeze by issuing a 'ping -f ' to any host on the local subnet (I assume it would be the same with the public Internet, but I don't see any point in flooding someone else's network to find out). The frustrating thing about this is that when booting to Knoppix, the problem does not appear. I can 'ping -f' my heart out, and the laptop remains rock solid. I have copied the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file from the Knoppix image to my Debian install, but this has not resolved the issue. I have increased the PCI Latency Timer setting (setpci -H1 -s *:* latency_timer=64) but this has not resolved it either. I did this because the Knoppix boot messages appeare -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
