On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 10:31:05AM +0200, J.T. Wenting wrote: > Yah. I have an RTL8139 based card as well. I think the problem is in linux, > not the card, as I have them also in several other systems (running > Windows95 and Windows2000) and they work great there.
No, it's the card. Reading the source for the driver reveals that the hardware has a half-assed design ... > The error I get is something related to the PCI bus, followed by an > interrupt error on the card. I thought it might be my mainboard (it is an > old machine) but now that others seem to have similar trouble I begin to > suspect the driver again. Having said the above, it's possible that the driver is FUBAR as well :) -- Nathan Norman "Eschew Obfuscation" Network Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 http://home.midco.net/~nnorman/ Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7
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