Is it an ISA card? I had two 3com ISA's in one box. The problem was that I had to chance the interrupt and the I/O base address to get them to work side by side...
Regards, Onno At 04:24 PM 12/28/99 +0000, Stuart Ballard wrote: >I have had this problem on two different computers, at least 3 different >3com 59x network cards, and both the slink default kernel-image and my >own compiled 2.2.12 (using kernel-package). In one case I was unable to >install debian (slink) at all until I changed network cards to an ne2k >compatible because the reboot happened before the installation finished. >In the second case I am on cutting-edge potato. > >The symptom is that between 1 and 15 minutes after loading the 3c59x >module (either by modprobe, ifconfig, or modconf), the machine reboots >with no warning whatsoever. I have not timed this problem (in all cases >the priority was getting the machine working so I didn't do any real >debugging) so it may be the exact same time delay in each case or it may >vary - but it always happens within a few minutes. In the time between >loading the module and the reboot, the card seems to work - one time I >successfully copied several megabytes of data across the link. > >None of the explanations for this problem make sense. It can't be bad >hardware - in all cases win9x or NT were able to use the cards with no >problems. Nobody else in my company uses Debian, but many use Red Hat on >similar cards with no problems. The number of different computers and >situations involved seems to preclude it being some other piece of >hardware or software in my system. But I can't believe that the kernel >developers have missed a spontaneous reboot bug for 2 whole stable >versions of the kernel! That leaves (1) User error by me... but all I >did was select the item from the list in modconf! There are no mandatory >options, but the same thing happened if I tried supplying the optional >ones. Or (2) a debian-specific bug to do with the way kernel-package >compiles things. Could this be a gcc2.7/egcs/gcc2.95 issue? Does >kernel-package use gcc2.95 where available? What is the slink default >kernel-image compiled by? > >Does anyone have any similar stories to report, fixes, workarounds, or >suggestions as to where to go to get the bug fixed, if it is a bug? (I'd >say that even if it's user error it's a bug... no bad input should cause >a spontaneous reboot, just an error message). > >Thanks in advance, >Stuart. > > >-- >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > >
