Are you running kernel 2.2? I have had several bizarre freezes of network cards on a machine running kernel 2.2.10 (haven't tried others). The freezes occur under high load after large amounts of traffic have passed through the card. (I would estimate at least several GB over a few days).
This has happened with two (different vendor) network cards. The new one, a 3c59x (not sure exactly what) can be reset by removing and reinstalling the driver, but the old one (eepro100) had the driver built into the kernel so I had to reboot. The 'device in use' error is probably because the interface is still up - you'd need to do an 'ifconfig eth0 down' regards, Andy On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 09:18:52AM -0400, Cormac McGuinness wrote: > Hi > I have a problem I have never encountered before with 10 Debian boxes. > The problem is every now and again, particularly during large transfers > of files by either ftp or samba, the network card on the computer just stops! > > The network card is an ne2000 compatible one (or at least that is the network > driver that works with it!) and when this occurs, I cannot do anything to > "restart" the network card going again. I have tried removing the ne.o module > but I can't as it says the device is in use. Instead I have to do a tedious > reboot on this old 486 Dx2 Gateway machine which I have running Debian 2.1. > > Has anyone encountered this before ? Any suggestions welcome. > > Yours > (trying to make an old 486 useful) > Cormac > > ------------------------------
